* Travel, travel, travel and more travel. I went on a 4 week holiday when I was 19 and ended up staying away for 8 years. It hasn't stopped since. * My backpack and passport. * Alternative medicine & natural health particularly ayurveda, yoga, aromatherapy & homeopathy. * Organic products, clothing, food & health for babies and kids. * Daisies * India * Good champagne * Animal Welfare * Freedom for Tibet * Photography * Hindu & Buddhist philosophy & art
* Tom Robbins * King Jigme Singye Wangchuckof of Bhutan
* Cocteau Twins * De La Soul * David Bowie * The Cure * Depeche Mode * New Order * The Pixies * Sugar * The Smiths * Ween * Ramones * Duran Duran * Urge Overkill * Radiohead * Queen * Siouxsie & The Banshees * Jeff Buckley * Weezer * Sonic Youth * Groove Armada * Sound Garden * Screaming Trees * Cat Stevens * Simon & Garfunkel * The Beatles * Foo Fighters * The Doors * White Stripes * Kate Bush * Stone Roses * Tears For Fears * Ravi Shankar * Thievery Corporation
* Even Cowgirls Get The Blues * Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind * Hideous Kinky * Donnie Darko * Boogie Nights * Fight Club * Parenthood * Three Kings * Requiem For A Dream * Best In Show * Kundun * Spinal Tap * The Motorcycle Diaries * Himalaya
* Spaced * Lost * League of Gentlemen * The Simpsons * Little Britain * The Office (English not US series) * Sigmund The Seamonster (thanks Tony!!) * Black Books * The Green Wing * Magic Roundabout
* Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins * The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides * The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho * Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs * Midnights Children - Salman Rushdie * The Famished Road - Ben Okri * A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry * Green Eggs & Ham - Dr Seuss * Atomised - Michel Houellebecq * Fear & Loathing - Hunter Thompson * Life Of Pi - Yann Martel
* Sam-I-Am for his tenacity. * Tom Robbins for his incredible writing, and for particularly producing the extraordinary "Another Roadside Attraction", my fave book ever. * King Jigme Singye Wangchuckof of Bhutan for having a 'Gross National Happiness' Index. * And last but not least my gorgeous boys.