I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.
For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.