Quotes from Eminem

It feels good to have your work respected again.

I don't do 'black music, ' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom.

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

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

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

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.

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

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'.

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.

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.

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

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

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.