Black Power.
Dean Martin over Sinatra, that's for sure.
Anything that's true and sounds like the future or a past that never was such as: Krautrock, True Metal, Free Jazz, Old Timey, New Age, Electro, Minimalism, 60's Girl Groups, AOR, Heavy Psych, British Folk, Early Music, Soundtracks, Dark Wave, Gagaku, Ragtime, Outlaw Country, Prog, Early Fusion, Noise, EBM, Japcore, Power Violence (but only in 6 minute intervals), anything foreign that's brutally repetitive.
Lowbrow, highbrow. Generally in that order.
Sure.
All the time.
Plenty. Let's start with Yukio Mishima, Jack Johnson, Jean Genet, Glenn Danzig, Lord Byron, Jeanne d'Arc, Napoléon Bonaparte, Dennis Wilson, Charles Mingus, Joan Jett, Marcel Duchamp, Sir Francis Dashwood, Thelonius Monk, Robert Mitchum, Toshiro Mifune, Lou Ferrigno, Stevie Nicks, Flannery O'Conner, Miles Davis and many other flawed and brilliant humans.