David Lynch

No Coloring Books Allowed 1998

David Lynch, Asymmetrical Studios, LA 1998

David Lynch, LA 1998

(L-R) John Neff and David Lynch as “Blue Bob,” LA 1999

You played trumpet—for how long?

Four years. And then they made me join a marching band and I quit. You know, when you read music, there is a part of your brain that shuts down. It’s like coloring within the lines—you don’t take off. My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, ’cause when you think about what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity. In a way, I really feel bad that I learned the trumpet.

Diet. People know that you have some peculiar eating habits, like you had a Bob’s Big Boy milkshake every afternoon at 2:30 for seven years.

Yes, I go for a long time on one thing [laughs]. Now, I have a choice of two different things for breakfast: a sausage patty, four strips of bacon and scrambled eggs, or a banana with peanut butter. At lunch, I have a salad of tomatoes, goat cheese, half a can of tuna fish and olive oil, a little bit of vinegar and some salt. And then at dinner I have cashew nuts and parmesan cheese, and sometimes little strips of chicken.