Jay's Influences

Musical parents

- The Jayhawks
- Frank Sinatra
- Glen Campbell
- John Denver
- Van Morrison
- Simon & Garfunkel
- The Hollies
- Chicago
- Bruce Springsteen
- Gordon Haskell
- John Lennon
- Johnny Cash
- Jimmy Nail
- Jeff Buckley
- Oasis
- Coldplay
- The Cardigans
- Sarah McLachlan
- Eva Cassidy
- Sheryl Crow
- Beth Nielsen Chapman
- John Mayer
- Andrea Bocelli
- Michael Nyman
- Thomas Newman

Movie vista

- The Shawshank Redemption
- American History X
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Dead Poets Society
- The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II
- Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet and most of the David Lynch movies
- The Graduate
- Halloween
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- The Grave of the Fireflies
- The Insider
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Jean de Florette
- Life of Brian
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- The Pianist
- Rain Man
- Tootsie
- Jerry Maguire
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Solaris
- The World According to Garp
- The Aviator
- Midnight Cowboy
- The Shining
- Thelma & Louise
- The Truman Show
- Basic Instinct
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Deliverance
- Do the Right Thing (and most of the films from Spike Lee)
- Manhattan
- Point Break
- Days of Heaven (and all the other Terence Mallick films)
- Every single movie from Quentin Tarantino

Other influences

- The art of Edward Hopper
- Andy Warhol
- James Dean

Life influences

- Frank Sinatra
- Mr. Met and Jerry Seinfeld (the comical side of me)
- My parents