Quotes By Eminem

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

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.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

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.

Touring is hard on the body.

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!

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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'.

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

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.