Quotes by Eminem

• Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
• I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
• I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
• If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
• I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
• I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
• 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.
• Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
• My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.
• To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
• The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
• Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
• It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.
• My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
• It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.
• 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.
• These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.
• 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 think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
• I need drama in my life to keep making music.
• My only scheme was to be a rapper.
• 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.
• A lot of truth is said in jest.
• I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
• I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.
• Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
• Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
• Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
• Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.