Quotes By Eminem

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm very much a creature of habit.

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.

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.

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.'

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

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.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.