Quotes By Eminem

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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 need drama in my life to keep making music.

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

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.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Rap was my drug.

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.