What's a book, movie, or song that has a profound impact on your life and why?

There is a book called Word Magic 2nd Edition by Pao Chang, and that changed my life. It changed my life. Get it.

The album Grace by Jeff Buckley from 1997 had profound impact on me, setting the bar for what a rock album could be in terms of depth, lyrically, arrangement-wise. And certainly the importance of the mix, Andy Wallace's mix, is so critical to delivering that important message.