Breakfast with Girls

Breakfast with Girls is the third studio album by American pop rock band Self, released on July 13, 1999, by DreamWorks Records and Spongebath Records. It is the band's first and only published album on DreamWorks. Its songs were mainly written and composed by Matt Mahaffey, the band's lead member. The album prominently maintains a power pop/art rock soundscape with elements of hip-hop and jazz.

Three singles supported it; the first, "Paint by Numbers", received a nomination for Song of the Year from the Nashville Music Association Awards, while the third, "Meg Ryan", was the album's major single. Upon release, Breakfast with Girls received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its inventiveness but critiqued its complexity. It peaked at number eighteen on the CMJ Top 200 chart, the band's best-known performance.

Lead member Matt Mahaffey wrote a large majority of the album based on his life, and anger at the major music industry. A concept album, it follows a young man in his 20s as he struggles to deal with his abusive girlfriend, a smoking addiction, and difficulty managing his finances in a world he has become disillusioned to, and no longer understands.