Quotes By Eminem

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

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 drama in my life to keep making music.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

I'm not really book-smart.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

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 might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

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.

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

Rap was my drug.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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