Quotes By Eminem

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.

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

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

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

Rap was my drug.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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