In the course of an interview he offered an affectionately lisping imitation of Truman Capote and the gravelly drawl of John Wayne, who also wanted a piece of "Matador".
So it's no surprise that over the course of an interview at California's Code conference, Musk revealed a number of things we didn't know before.
In the course of an interview, he ranges widely from the role of religion in US society to changes in family life and the rise of inequality.
Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic Party chairman, followed just that course in an interview, saying, "This issue does not need any fuel from Terry McAuliffe.
During the course of an interview with the New York Observer, Rylance talked about the Bridge of Spies' script – and specifically, how the Coen brothers edited it.
Of course, in an interview on CNN, Mr. Clinton tossed in a don't-get-me-wrong line concerning President Obama: "I think he's done a better job than he's getting credit for".
Also on Wednesday, Mr. Putin's spokesman, in the course of an interview about Syria, mentioned to The Times's Moscow bureau chief Steven Lee Myers that an article was in the works.
He emphasises the point by punching his right fist into the left palm, an action repeated several times during the course of an interview where he speaks eloquently, wisely and frequently with passion.
But at the same time, Mr. Gillen, who looks a bit like a young Gary Oldman, makes it clear in the course of an interview that his ambitions as an actor are nothing less than stratospheric.
In the course of an interview about spotted hyenas, for example, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, scornfully referred to the wildebeest that the hyenas frequently prey on as "wildeburgers".
