Music and obviously lyric-writing. My other main passion is the internal martial arts - Tai Chi, Y Chuan, Bagua, for the health benefits and sensations they bring with the years.
Singers/bands looking for songs of different styles with lyrics varying from fairly meaningful to very meaningful. Composers to collaborate to produce music for the lyrics that don't have any yet.
Little Steven, Springsteen, Southside Johnny, Dylan, Patti Scialfa, Budgie, Meatloaf, Billy Joel, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Melissa Etheridge, Cat Stevens, Led Zep, Deep Purple, the Who, Rolling Stones, Bob Seger, Steve Earle, Leonard Cohen, Anouk, Alex Harvey and many more. And increasingly, the very talented up-and-coming people I meet on Myspace. On the French side, Francis Cabrel is the best, a brilliant lyricist, along with Jean-Jacques Goldman
Authors include John Banville, J.M. Coetzee, Rupert Thomson, John le Carré
Those doing good work that you never hear or read about - eg those who give up their day off to stick stamps on envelopes they hope will serve a good cause.