Eminem quotes:

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

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

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.'

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

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.

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.

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

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

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

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.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

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.

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.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

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

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.

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.

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.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

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.

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.

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

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

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.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.

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.

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.

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.

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

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

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

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

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

I'm not really book-smart.

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

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.

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

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

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

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

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

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

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

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

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.

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

I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?

You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.

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

My earliest memory was raping the babysitter when I was 5...she was 15.

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

You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, 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.

Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil

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

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 don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless.

Me and Marcus Allen went over to see Nicole We heard a knock at the door, must have been Ron Gold' Jumped behind the door, put the orgy on hold Killed em both and smeared blood on the white Bronco

I sold my soul to the devil. I'm going to hell. I'm headed to hell. I want the money, the women, the fortune, and the fame. That Means I'll end up burning in hell scorching in flames. Satan'll be in to see me later to see if I'm interested in being partners. Devil worshippin', Satan music.

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?

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

Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

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

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.

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

Inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.

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.

But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me.

You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.

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

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.

I shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing the stars.

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.

I make music to make you sick of fake music hate music like devil worshippin Satan music. So say your prayers your Hail Mary's and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.

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.

Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

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'.

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

I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human.

Cause see they call me a menace; and if the shoe fits I'll wear it.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Just be yourself, the minute you start being yourself youre gonna win.

The devil's spirit's trapped inside me. My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man. So I keep conjuring (demons), sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn (Satan) from. I'm just relaying what the voice in my head's saying. Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the monster that's under my bed. Get along with the voices inside of my head.

Cause sometimes you just feel tired, feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength and just pull that sh** out of you and get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse.

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

The parents are pissed, but the kids love it.

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?

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

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

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

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

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

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

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

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

Believe it or not, I thank my mom for how she raised me in a neighborhood daily to jump and chase me. It only made me what I am today.

I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.

Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.

I'm not afraid, to take a stand Everybody come take my hand

I'm not afraid to take a stand. Everybody come take my hand. We'll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm. Just let you know that, you're not alone. Holla if you feel that you've been down the same road.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.

Opportunity may only come once in a lifetime.

Inside I'll always be an outsider

I believe people can change, but only for the worse

A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.

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!

Just promise me you'll think of me everytime you look up in the sky and see a star

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.

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

When I say I'm going to do something I do it! I don't give a damn what you think.I'm doing this for me!

I would've layed down and died for you! I know longer cry for you! No more pain!