Favourite Visual Artist
Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Claude Monet, Roger Dean, Rodney Matthews, Ken Marschall
Favourite Movies
The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Dragonheart, Avatar, Pan's Labyrinth, E.T. the Extraterrestrial, Jurassic Park, The Lion King, How to Train Your Dragon
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Fleetwood Mac, Yanni, Genesis, Roxette, Yes, Bee Gees, Asia (the supergroup), The Alan Parsons Project, Queen, Pink Floyd, Phil Collins, Chris Rea, Elton John, Peter Gabriel, Frank Sinatra, Vangelis, Enigma, Mike Oldfield, Kitaro
Favourite Books
The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Inheritance Cycle, Temeraire Series, His Dark Materials, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons
Favourite Writers
J.R.R. Tolkien, William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Dan Brown, Jack London, Jules Verne, Mark Twain
Other Interests
Trains, historic ships (especially the RMS Titanic), history, philosophy