Choose your influences

You are responsible for what you surround yourself with.

I'd choose things, people, situations that support me. I'd choose inspiration, beauty, role models, interesting ideas, poetry, dance, possibilities, positive thinkers. What do you choose?

Tavis Smiley asked Tori Amos, "How do you do it?" She was asked to be "an architect of the classics". I need reems and reems of material before I begin, reems and reems of time, space and good input.