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When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

I've always been a person who is driven.

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.

When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory.