Eminem Quotes

I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

You don't wanna go eggin' him on. It'll never be my chair that your on, crown so tight that it cuts off circulation to the brain no oxygen. Other words there's no heir to the throne.

Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album.

I get offended when people say, 'So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.

Gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis, put my LP on your Christmas gift list.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.

They said I rap like a robot, so call me rapbot.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.

I believe people can change, but only for the worse

They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound.

Just never really got into cars and flossin' or never really cared, like I was always the type of person that felt like as long as I make enough money to support my family with this music that's all I really care about. You know what I mean so I don't really buy, I'm just not into like that many material possessions and stuff like that, because at the end of the day, it's just not that important.

Touring is hard on the body.

I’d rather die than you not be by my side.

Music is reflection of self.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.

I don't want to just die a normal death, I wanna be killed twice.

What are friends? Friends are people you think are your friends but they really your enemies, with secret identities.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

I'm not afraid to take a stand. Everybody come take my hand. We'll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm. Just let you know that, you're not alone. Holla if you feel that you've been down the same road.

It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.

It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Just promise me you'll think of me everytime you look up in the sky and see a star

People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human.

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything.

And all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony.

Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Everything always happens for a reason.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence.

Don't let them tell you ain't beautiful

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

With every song, all the elements have to work. First, the beat has to be great - you start there. You start with the music, and then the ideas follow. Then you start thinking of rhymes, and then you record it, and sometimes - this happens to me a lot - it doesn't come out as good as it did in my head when I first wrote it.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

I really should have fell but I stood