Eminem Quotes

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

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.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

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

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.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

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.

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

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

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

Guns are bad, I tell you.

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

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

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

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

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

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.

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

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it’s all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

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

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

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

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

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

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.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

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’m not really book-smart.

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.‘

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Touring is hard on the body.

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

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.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of ‚Encore.‘ So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.