Eminem Quotes - Page 6

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.

I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.

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

He made you feel like you knew him. I think that honestly, 2pac was the greatest songwriter that ever lived. He made it seem so easy. The emotion was there, and feeling, and everything he was trying to describe. You saw a picture that he was trying to paint.

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

99% of my life I was lied to. I just found out my mom does more dope than I do(Damn!). I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it after her (-Oh, thank you!).

Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me.

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

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'.

I'm about as normal as Norman Bates.

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

As long as the wrong feels right - it's like I'm in flight.

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.

England? England is in London right?

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

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

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

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

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

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

Rap will never be the same as before

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

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

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

They say that love is powerful as cough syrup and Styrofoam. All I know is I fell asleep and woke up in that Monte Carlo With the ugly Kardashian... Lamar, oh, sorry. Yo, we done both set the bar low.