Quotes By Eminem

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.

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.

Touring is hard on the body.

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.

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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

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

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.

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.

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

A lot of truth is said in jest.

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.

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.

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

I need to keep working on myself for a while.