The alarm goes off at about 4:45 AM and my feet are on the ground at roughly 5 AM, depending on how much wine I had the night before. But I have to get up--I have a radio show at 6 AM so I'm out of the house and in the office by 5:30 AM.
If you're in radio, you're used to sucking down really bad coffee. There's no room to be a coffee snob if you work at a radio station. But listen, at like 5:30 in the morning, you just need that eye-opener. It's gotta happen.
The first thing I do when I get to the studio is put the air down to 66, 67 degrees, then I turn on the lights and blast music. So by 6:03 in the morning, I'm in an icebox of a studio, with David Guetta blaring like I'm in Ibiza. Other than coffee, that's the only wake-up I need.
Eating breakfast is tough, because between 6 AM and 10 AM I'm busy. When I do eat something, it's usually during a Lil' Wayne song, since he happens to have a lot of songs that are over 4 minutes and 30 seconds. "Wide Awake" by Katy Perry is another song where I have time to heat up my oatmeal, drop in the blueberries, and refresh the coffee. But I can't do that during "Payphone" by Maroon 5 because it's barely 3 minutes.
I always eat a banana at some point in the morning, and I'll have a hard boiled egg now and again, but my breakfast is usually oatmeal. I go to Costco and buy this big, giant variety box so I don't get bored of it. Sometimes I'll supplement that with a granola bar from the vending machine.
I have a New York Post subscription that I got when I lived in New York--I still get it here in Los Angeles. So I flip through the Post, the New York Times, the LA Times, and USA Today. I like to physically hold the paper. And I still--because I was brought up this way in radio--take a razor blade to the stories I want to cut out. I like to make collages.
