Quotes from Maye Musk

When I go out on the runway, I can feel the audience vibrate.

I live by the seat of my pants.

For fifty years, I was a part-time model, but basically, I'm a nutritionist, a teacher, a mother.

When Elon was 17 and my daughter was 15, they really wanted to move to Canada, where my family is from. I said no, because I wanted to do a Ph.D. in Johannesburg, and I was getting lots of modeling work there. But Elon and I went over to visit, and while I was gone my daughter sold my home and my car and had a big garage sale with all my furniture.

My personal style icons are Diane Von Furstenberg and Linda Fargo. For strength and their own style, Christine Lagarde and Angela Merkel.

My dog wakes me at 6:30 in the morning, so pretty much, I have to get up.

All my kids are brilliant.

My best piece of style advice is to keep your wardrobe small and love everything in it.

I don't take supplements - I get nutrition from food.

I don't do a lot of fad diets or supplements and don't recommend that.

People always want to know what I fed my kids. I gave them real food, not frozen pizza.

I don't care why a client books me, as long as they book me.

I cap my shoe collection at 40.

Peter Lindbergh is the most charming man - I did a Gap commercial for him, and he was just so sweet.

I have to avoid sweet food because it's my weakness, and it's really hard. What you eat will definitely affect your skin, so I really try to stay away from sweets.

If there's foods I don't like, like kale, it doesn't mean that I'm not efficient in my diet; it just means I can eat broccoli and other green vegetables. That's what people don't understand, is that as long as you're having a variety of foods in your diet, you don't have to have the food of the week that's everyone going crazy about.

All three of my kids grew up seeing me on posters.

I spend three hours a day working on my social network profiles. I think about the right people to tag, the ones who might generate new leads. It's my work, my self-promotion.

Makeup does a lot for your confidence. When I put makeup on, I walk taller. I smile more. I feel good. I know I look prettier. Even if I just put day makeup on.

I'm not good at sports, but I do exercise because we have to move. Besides walking my dog four times a day, I go to the gym and do 30 minutes on a stationary bike while reading a book because I get bored, then 10 minutes of weights and 10 of stretches.

I have to plan all my meals and snacks every day, or the wheels come off, and I gain weight.

Makeup transforms me. I feel like I'm in disguise when I walk my dog without makeup on.

My kids do very extraordinary things that make sense.

I just think everything my kids do is fabulous.