What Flaming Lips Singer Wayne Coyne Eats for Breakfast

That Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne went from breakfasts of Cap'n Crunch to fruit and water? Here's his morning routine

By E.C. Gladstone

May 2, 2013

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What Flaming Lips Singer Wayne Coyne Eats for Breakfast

Welcome to My Morning Routine, where we take a look at how people kick-start the day. And by "people" we mean celebrities.

"I don't really have a routine,"
Wayne Coyne tells us. It sounds like he's worried he'll disappoint,but we'd expect nothing less from the leader of the legendarily quirkyalternative band Flaming Lips. And in truth, even as he approaches greyeminence, he doesn't want a routine. "I think that's one of the great thingsabout my life. I don't say, 'It's Tuesday, so I do this.'"

Nevertheless, how Coyne enters into most mornings does saysomething about how the singer and songwriter approaches the astounding thirddecade of his band's career. As you might imagine, his attitude about foodisn't far from his approach to music.

Coffee wasn't always good. People in their thirties don'tunderstand this. It was only the '90s when coffee shops got to be a place you'dwant to go to. Nowadays, you can find great coffee anywhere. When I tell peopleI like strong coffee-flavored coffee that Starbucks has, sometimes the morecoffee snobbish people will go "ughh." I'm not a coffee snob--I don't give it any more meaning--it's just what Ilike. __What I drink and eat isn't showing how smart and sophisticated I am.__Sometimes you want it strong, sometimes you want it to have a bunch of aromaand flavor. But I would never drink weak nursing-home coffee.

There's a company in Tulsa that wants to make a Flaming Lipscoffee, but what would be the twist? There should be some surprise about it. Wehad a marijuana-flavored brain inside our gummy skull [released 2011].

We've been approached a million times about a Flaming Lipsrestaurant, too. I think food is a great art form by itself, but it takes a lot oftime and effort, and I'm not looking to run a restaurant. We've consideredthings like actually serve people flies. Like if you find a fly in your soup it'smeant to be there. You'd have to make baloney that looks like someone's finger...ketchupthat comes out of a blood container...something coming out of a baby diaper. Butnobody would want to do that.

E.C. Gladstone blogs about food at nowimhungry.com and on the world ofwine and spirits at his own SipSavorSwallow.com as well as other printand online outlets. He can be stalked on Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.