Top 343 Quotes & Sayings by Eminem - Page 2

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.

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'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

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

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've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Rap was my drug.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

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.

Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

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

Touring is hard on the body.

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.

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.

As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty.

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.

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

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

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.

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

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

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.

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

I'm not really book-smart.

When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

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 realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

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.'

Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly.

I ain't looking back only forward.

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

Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters

Had a dream, I was King, I woke up, still King

What are friends ? Friends are people that you think are your friends But they really your enemies, with secret indentities And disguises, to hide they true colors So just when you think you close enough to be brothers They wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin'.

You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.

Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are.

People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

I was born with the biggest middle finger on Earth.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

I don't mean to be mean but that's all I can be, that's just me.