Quotes By Eminem

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 need drama in my life to keep making music.

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

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 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.

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

Rap was my drug.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.