With a fondness for oddball lyrics and onstage antics with animal suits, the Flaming Lips definitely qualify as freaks. But do they like to get freaky? Since the legendary Oklahoma band just released an installment of Late Night Tales, a CD series that invites musicians to compile a soundtrack to after-hours adventures, this seemed like the perfect time to find out. We recently quizzed the Lips' happily married frontman Wayne Coyne about his personal porn preferences, fast food sex and those frisky rabbits he uses onstage.

1. How'd you lose your virginity?

Wayne Coyne: It was no big deal. I think I was 16. I had gotten this job working as a cook at Long John Silver's. This woman I knew from high school, who I ended up going out with and living with for four years, came by one night during the summer with a couple of her friends. They were drunk, and it happened about five hours later at her house. Steely Dan played in the background, and I did the best I could.

2. Ever get it on at Long John Silver's?

WC: Um...no. It's a damn shame. But I did it plenty of times in my uniform, I'm sure.

3. What gets you going?

WC: The act itself is great, but it's the waiting for it, and the getting ready, and the foreplay that really excites me. I suppose I fall into Sting's tantric sex category. When I think of sex, I don't think of doing it as much as the anticipation. I like a show. I like high heels and all that sort of junk. Dark hose. New places, like the kitchen, the living room, a hotel room, the car. For me, it's all about the new, the unexpected. If you do it the same way all the time it gets boring.

4. Do you role-play in bed?

WC: No! Every time my wife Michele and I see HBO's Real Sex or whatever, it's always some fat old guy who wants to be whipped. When people have to act out stuff, it's too weird.

5. Who's the sexiest cartoon character?

WC: I don't think I've ever found any cartoon character to have any real sex appeal, in any way that they weren't intended to. And I'm not weird, thinking Daffy Duck is sexy or something. I guess I'll have to say Bugs Bunny when he's in drag.

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