Eminem Quotes

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot.

Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.

Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed

They say music can alter moods and talk to you.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto, I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Love is evil, spell it backwards, I’ll show ya.

All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face.

I ain't looking back only forward.

But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

I realize that some people see going away as, "Oh, he's irrelevant now," but I feel like if I don't go away, I get sick of myself. It's never been my thing to be in the spotlight all the time.

When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.

Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one.

Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are.

Touring used to be hard. Early on in my career when I was more in grind mode, I was doing two or three shows a day. It was tough because you start feeling like you have no life. That being said, I do enjoy actually doing the shows.

Of all the albums I've made, I still don't feel like I've made the perfect album. I've had ones that touch on this, and others that touch on that, but never one that's just perfect and fully relevant. I don't know if I'll ever make it, but I'm certainly trying every day.

The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money.

When I say or do something I do it, I don't give a damn what you think, I'm doing this for me.

I will hit a man with glasses.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

See, regardless of what anybody believes who hates me; you ain't gonna make or break me.

I'm about as normal as Norman Bates.

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

England? England is in London right?

It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.

Soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping

If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.

Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly.

That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.

I've always respected what Wayne does, and Wayne, to me is definitely one of the greatest in the game right now.

I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.

I'm an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don't get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet.

They call me superman, I'm here to rescue you.

I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.

Coming up as an MC, I took the frustrations of the underground and brought it with me into the mainstream. I know there was a certain complex I had in the beginning that was just a little paranoid or a little...sensitive.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.