Quotes from Eminem

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

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.

I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one takes a minute.

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

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... 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.

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.

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.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

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

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.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

The parents are pissed, but the kids love it.

We'll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm.

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.