Eminem
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.Collection: Truth
I need drama in my life to keep making music.Collection: Music
Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.Collection: Funny
I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.Collection: Women
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.Collection: Music
I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.Collection: Sad
A lot of truth is said in jest.Collection: Truth
I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.Collection: Money
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Music
Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.Collection: Famous
Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Change
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.Collection: Love
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.'Collection: Positive
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.Collection: Music
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.Collection: Poetry
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.Collection: Poetry
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.Collection: Life
I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Music
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.Collection: Humor
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. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.Collection: Chance
The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.Collection: Anger
My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.Collection: Family
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 didn't just invent saying offensive things.
Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.
Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.
If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.
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.
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.
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.
Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.
Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.
My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.
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.
It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.
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 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.
I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.
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.
I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.
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.
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.
Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
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.