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I'm trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say: 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

In Hoboken, when I was a kid, I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood.

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.

Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Music is always a commentary on society.

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

I think we need more idiot control.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

It's very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Great companies are built on great products.

I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that's also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage.

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.

There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.

On one of the SpaceX flights, we had a secret payload: a wheel of cheese. We flew to orbit and brought it back, so it was the world's first 'space cheese.' It was, in part, a tribute to Monty Python.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.