Quotes By Eminem

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

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.

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

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

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.

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

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

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.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

I'm very much a creature of habit.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'