Quotes By Eminem

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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'.

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

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.

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.