Music:
Anything with a real guitar - Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Razorlight, The Kooks, Incubus, Foo Fighters, Thea Gilmore, Funeral for a friend, Rage against the Machine - the list goes on!
Movies:
Pulp Fiction, Training Day, Black Hawk Down, We were Soldiers, Most things with Nick Cusack, Brad Pitt and Nicolas Cage
Books:
Pretty much anything by Dean Koontz (check out Intensity and Dark Rivers of the Heart)
The Godfather,
Thomas Harris (Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal)
James Frey
Jeffrey Deaver
There aren't many books that I don't like - try me...
Heroes:
My immediate family all inspire me one way or another