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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

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

— 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

“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

“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.”

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

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

— 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

“I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.”

— Eminem

“A lot of truth is said in jest.”

— Eminem