Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out.

No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.