Eminem
You're not going to hit it every single time, and that's why, when I record an album, I do probably close to 50 songs. Each song I record has to get better. If it's not better than the last song that I made, it'll usually linger for a couple of months, and then it'll be put on the backburner, and then there'll be another song that I do, and then it often doesn't make it on the album.Collection: Song
The devil's spirit's trapped inside me. My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man. So I keep conjuring (demons), sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn (Satan) from. I'm just relaying what the voice in my head's saying. Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the monster that's under my bed. Get along with the voices inside of my head.Collection: Rain
If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD.Collection: Cds
Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.Collection: Self
My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man.Collection: Rain
I get offended when people say, 'So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!Collection: Growing Up
The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money.Collection: Worst
Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person.Collection: Growing Up
My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.Collection: Brain
I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.Collection: White
It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.Collection: Serious
We sing for these kids who don't have a thing.Collection: Kids
I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white.'Collection: White
I make music to make you sick of fake music, hate music like devil worshippin Satan music. So say your prayers, your Hail Marys and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.Collection: Jesus
They said I rap like a robot, so call me rapbot.Collection: Rap
We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.Collection: Mother
I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.Collection: Mother
I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changedCollection: Mood
They say music can alter moods and talk to you.Collection: Mood
Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f... around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess.Collection: Song
But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane.Collection: Window Panes
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.Collection: Believe
Ain't nothin' but a whole lot of suckin' goin' on in rap.Collection: Rap
I will hit a man with glasses.Collection: Men
Slim Shady, Eminem was the old initials.Collection: Slim
I'm an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don't get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet.Collection: Fall
Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night.Collection: Weed
Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.Collection: Fall
I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now!Collection: Wish
Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one.Collection: Education
My skin is too thick and bullet proof to touch me.Collection: Skins
I realize that some people see going away as, "Oh, he's irrelevant now," but I feel like if I don't go away, I get sick of myself. It's never been my thing to be in the spotlight all the time.Collection: People
I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look likeCollection: Fighting
Believe it or not, I thank my mom for how she raised me in a neighborhood daily to jump and chase me. It only made me what I am today.Collection: Mom
Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?Collection: Daughter
You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.Collection: Boys
He made you feel like you knew him. I think that honestly, 2pac was the greatest songwriter that ever lived. He made it seem so easy. The emotion was there, and feeling, and everything he was trying to describe. You saw a picture that he was trying to paint.Collection: Thinking
I'm about as normal as Norman Bates.Collection: Low Self Esteem
Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me.Collection: Suicide
99% of my life I was lied to. I just found out my mom does more dope than I do(Damn!). I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it after her (-Oh, thank you!).Collection: Mom
I haven't had a perfect career. I've put some albums out that, looking back, I'm not super proud of, but there's also a lot of stuff that I am very proud of.Collection: Perfect