Elon Musk Wants to Clear Up a Few Things

— -- For all of his eccentricities, billionaire Elon Musk said he would never scold an employee for missing a company meeting to witness the birth of his child.

The claim is one of several in the upcoming book "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future."

On Monday, the Washington Post published 22 standout quotes from the new book -- among them that Musk crashes with Google founder Larry Page when he visits Silicon Valley and on another occasion, took a moldy Soviet era rocket manual as his poolside reading.

Among the quotes mentioned, Musk said two needed to be corrected.

The second quote in the round-up Musk said needs to be corrected is he never told a potential investor he has the "mentality of a samurai."

One quote Musk didn't flag as being wrong -- he thinks putting a roller coaster in the Tesla factory in Fremont could be a winning idea.

"I'm actually wondering about putting in a roller coaster — like a functional roller coaster at the factory in Fremont," he said, according to the book. "You'd get in, and it would take you around [the] factory but also up and down. Who else has a roller coaster? ... It would probably be really expensive, but I like the idea of it."