“Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can’t fail.”

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I think there’s an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can’t be excited when you’re not doing something new.

I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it’s a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.

If you treat me fairly, I’ll give you all my goods.

My life is rich because I have those kinds of people in my life.

Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.

Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That’s why it’s so important to know who you are and stand up for something.

Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love it’s: Wow, life is good.

When I’m on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It’s a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.

Love me like you’ll never see me again.

Love is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless.

Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.

From the beginning, I’ve had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say – and I’ve learnt that they’re meaningless, and they’re mostly inaccurate. So I don’t worry about it, because there’s nothin’ for me to deal with.

Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won’t fail forever.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

Failure is a part of creating a great life. Stand up to it and handle it with grace. Because, you can.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

We will return to the pitch, and give it everything.

Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser.

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.