Quotes from Eminem

Let me remind you of what got me this far, picture me quitting, now draw a circle around it and put a line through it, sl#t!

I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!

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 stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.

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

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

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

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.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

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

My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the same rhyme

Rap was my drug.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

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

Guns are bad, I tell you.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

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

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

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

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.'

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 need to keep working on myself for a while.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.