Quotes By Eminem

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

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

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

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.

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.

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.

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

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.

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.

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.

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

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