Eminem Quotes And Sayings

I Was Poor White Trash, No Glitter, No Glamour, But I'm Not Ashamed Of Anything.

I Don't Hate Women - They Just Sometimes Make Me Mad.

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.

Trust Is Hard To Come By. That's Why My Circle Is Small And Tight. I'm Kind Of Funny About Making New Friends.

These Times Are So Hard, And They're Getting Even Harder.

I Might Talk About Killing People, But That Doesn't Mean I Do It.

Anybody With A Sense Of Humor Is Going To Put On My Album And Laugh From Beginning To End.

To The People I Forgot, You Weren't On My Mind For Some Reason And You Probably Don't Deserve Any Thanks Anyway.

Anything I've Ever Said, I Certainly Was Feeling At The Time.

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'.

Rap Was My Drug.

My Overall Look On Things Is A Lot More Mature Than It Used To Be.

Touring Is Hard On The Body.

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.

It Feels Good To Have Your Work Respected Again.

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.

I'm Very Much A Creature Of Habit.

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.

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.

I Realized, 'Yo, I Can't Do Anything In Moderation. I Don't Know How.'

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.

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.

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?

Guns Are Bad, I Tell You.

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.

I've Accomplished Enough With The Music That I Haven't Had To Go Out There And Do Other Things To Over-saturate.

I Always Felt That If I Was Going To Do A Movie, I Wanted It To Be Authentic.

I Love The Attention But I Don't Like Too Much Of It.

I Didn't Just Invent Saying Offensive Things.

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.

My Family Has Never Been There For Me. They Expect Things Because We're Blood.

I Do Say Things That I Think Will Shock People. But I Don't Do Things To Shock People. I'm Not Trying To Be The Next Tupac, But I Don't Know How Long I'm Going To Be On This Planet. So While I'm Here, I Might As Well Make The Most Of It.

Nothing On 'Relapse' And Very Little On 'Recovery' Was Produced By Me.

Being A Student Of Hip-hop In General, You Take Technical Aspects From Places. You May Take A Rhyme Pattern Or Flow From Big Daddy Kane Or Kool G Rap.

I Don't Think I've Ever Read Poetry, Ever. I'm Not Really Book-smart.

I Always Try To Be Smart. I Try To Treat All The Money I'm Making Like It's The Last Time I'm Going To Make It.

Dealing With Backstabbers, There Was One Thing I Learned. They're Only Powerful When You Got Your Back Turned.

There Was Certainly, Like, A Rebellious, Like, Youthful Rage In Me. And There Was Also The Fact Of No Getting Away From Fact That I Am White, And You Know, This Is Predominantly Black Music, You Know.

Five Or Six Songs Leaked From The Original Version Of 'Encore.' So I Had To Go In And Make New Songs To Replace Them.

I Felt Like I Had A Really Bad Case Of Writer's Block... 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 Emotions In A Song - The Anger, Aggression - Have Got To Be Legitimate.

Fame Hit Me Like A Ton Of Bricks.

I Come From Detroit Where It's Rough And I'm Not A Smooth Talker.

I Need Drama In My Life To Keep Making Music.

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.

If There's Not Drama And Negativity In My Life, All My Songs Will Be Really Wack And Boring Or Something.

I Try To Treat All The Money I'm Making Like It's The Last Time I'm Going To Make It.

Throughout My Career, I Fed Off The Fuel Of People Not Being Able To Understand Me.

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.'

Well, I'm Working All The Time To Stay Out Of Trouble!