Eminem Quotes

A lot of truth is said in jest.

God sent me to piss the world off!

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

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

I can never turn my back on a city that made me.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

You ever love somebody so much
You can barely breathe
When you're with them

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

I shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing the stars.

At least have the decency in you / To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out / In the streets when I'm eating or feeding my daughter

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.

I was born a premature birth.
My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse"
My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.

I've always respected what Wayne does, and Wayne, to me is definitely one of the greatest in the game right now.

I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.

In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum.

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else.

My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.

Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil
We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.

Fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said, but I said precedents.

You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and N.W.A. and I never went out and shot nobody.

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.

That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.

My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the same rhyme

In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it.

Sixty slutz all of them dying from asphyxia/after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippie cup

You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.

Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it.

Everything always happens for a reason.

So many lives I touch, so much anger.

I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look like

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.

Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters

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.

Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.

Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything.

When I say or do something I do it, I don't give a damn what you think, I'm doing this for me..

Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.

My earliest memory was raping the babysitter when I was 5 ... she was 15.

Rap was my drug.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.

Don't ever try to judge me dude. You don't know what the fuck I've been through

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.

They say music can alter moods and talk to you.

I have big nuts. huge nuts. Elephantitis of the balls - that's what I have.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

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.

As long as the wrong feels right - it's like I'm in flight.

And all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony.

But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me.

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.

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

If you get offended by my music, don't listen to it.

Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.

Despite what I say in my songs, its never okay for a man to put his hands on a female.

E smart, don't be a retard.

I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.

But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane.

If you have enemies, good
that means you stood up for something.

But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind

I'm not really book-smart.

Sometimes you just gotta let sh-t go and say 'to hell with it' and move on.

If you aint like me, you aint gotta like me.

Nuts they go, macadamia they go so ballistic, whoa.

I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow.

I try to keep it positive and play it cool, shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

These times are so hard, are they're getting even harder.
~ Eminem

Rap will never be the same as before

Opportunity may only come once in a lifetime.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.

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'.

I ain't looking back only forward.

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.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

If somebody is smoking a joint in a movie, I say it's a cigarette - a big cigarette if it's a Cheech and Chong movie.

My morals went when the president got oral.

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

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'.

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

Touring is hard on the body.

Music is reflection of self.

I had too much Nyquil and Vivarin again. Lost my stomach all over the place.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.