Eminem Quotes

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

Be a king? Think not.
Why be a king when you can be a God?

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

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

They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound.

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.

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

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

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

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

My skin is too thick and bullet proof to touch me.

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.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

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

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

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

Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me.

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

The last time that life kicked me in the ass, I pulled down its pants and put a foot up its ass.

Slim Shady: Hotter then a set of twin babies
In a Mercedes Benz, with the windows up
When the temp goes up to the mid 80's.

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.

Came to the world at a time when it was in need of a villain / An asshole, that role I think I succeed in fulfilling / Dont think I ever stopped to think I was speaking to children / Everything was happening so fast, it was like I blinked, sold three million.

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

I just remembered that I'm absent minded ... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.

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.

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

I really should have fell but I stood

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.

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

Why be a king,when you can be a god?

Yeah, it's been a ride
I guess I had to go to that place to get to this one
Now some of you might still be in that place
If you're trying to get out, just follow me
I'll get you there

I pray that god answers, maybe I'll ask nicer

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

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

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.

When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am.

And to the rest of the world
God gave you shoes to fit you
So put 'em on and wear 'em
Be yourself man, be proud of who you are
Even if it sounds corny
Don't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.

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

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

Youre still beautiful to me, cause youre my mom.

The parents are pissed, but the kids love it.

England? England is in London right?

Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album.

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

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

She [Benzino] is obsessed with me. I never would think I would see the day when I seen the worst rapper in the world going against one of the best.

I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.

I ain't looking back only forward.

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'.

I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet
I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat

All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew
up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling
point ... Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in
their face.

I will hit a man with glasses.

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

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.

Gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis, put my LP on your Christmas gift list.

And I am, whatever you say I am
If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD.

I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

I find you offensive for finding me offensive

I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.

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

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!).

Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.

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

So many lives I touch, so much anger.

I'm standing on my Monopoly board that means I'm on top of my game

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our
checks in the mail.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

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

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.

I just drank a fifth of vodka, dare me to drive?

Music is reflection of self.

You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em
But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em

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

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

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

If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!

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

Proof had this ability to not only nurture my talent, but to see that diamond in the rough when a million people could be looking at the same thing... and just not see it.

I act like shit don't phase me inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive

I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot.

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.

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

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

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.

Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence.

See it's easy as cake, simple as whistling Dixie
While I'm waving the pistol at sixty Christians against me
Go to war with the Mormons, take a bath with the Catholics
In holy water, no wonder they tried to hold me under longer.

If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business.

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

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.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

No more cutting grams, and wrapping grands up in rubber-bands,
I'm a recovered man, our plans ta discover other lands,
suburban places got me seeking for an oasis, cristal by the cases, ladies of all races with dime faces, sex on the white sand beaches of Saint Thomas, though this ain't promised,
I'm as determined as them old timers.

See, regardless of what anybody believes who hates me; you ain't gonna make or break me.