Quotes By Eminem

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

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

I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.

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.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

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

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

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

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

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

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.

I'm not really book-smart.

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.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

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

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

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

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.