Your mother.
Nirvana, Alkaline Trio, Flogging Molly, Violent Femmes, Blind Melon, Sublime, SoaD, and too many others to list.
American Beauty, A Beautiful Mind, Almost Famous, Fight Club, any Kevin Smith movie, Citizen Kane, etc.
"Perfume", by Patrick Suskind. Anything by Mario Puzo. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky.