Eminem

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

— Eminem

“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.”

— Eminem

“I need drama in my life to keep making music.”

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

“It feels good to have your work respected again.”

— Eminem

“The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.”

— Eminem

“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.'”

— 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

“A lot of truth is said in jest.”

— 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

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

“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.”

— 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

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

— Eminem

“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

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

— Eminem

“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.”

— Eminem

“I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.”

— Eminem