Quotes from Eminem

Music is reflection of self.

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

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.

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

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.

You've got enemies? Good that means you actually stood up for something.

I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me.

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

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

I don't want to just die a normal death, I wanna be killed twice.

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

Sometimes you just gotta let sh*t go and say "to hell with it" and move on.

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.

Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one.

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

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

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.

Homie you got it backwards, your dipping your soup inside your crackers.

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

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.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

Somebody once told me to seize the moment and not squander it. 'Cause you never know, it could be over tomorrow.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.