Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.
Eminem
I don't think that my tongue-in-cheekness will ever go away. I guess it's just a part of my personality. I always want to keep some type of element of fun to the music as well. If one song is darker or talking about a sad subject, I don't want to make a whole album of that, of being a downer. I don't want to make a whole album of being too uppity.
Eminem
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.
Eminem
My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.
Eminem
You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.
Eminem
I was a smart kid, but I hated school.
Eminem
I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.
Eminem
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.
Eminem
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.
Eminem
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'.
Eminem
I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
Eminem
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.
Eminem
If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
Eminem
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.
Eminem
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.
Eminem
These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.
Eminem
It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.
Eminem
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.
Eminem
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.
Eminem
Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!
Eminem
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.
Eminem
I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.
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