Eminem Quotes - Page 8

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

I'm certainly not a f**king fashion consultant. Don't call me if you want to know how to dress. I just rap. That's all I really know how to do.

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.

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

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

You're not going to hit it every single time, and that's why, when I record an album, I do probably close to 50 songs. Each song I record has to get better. If it's not better than the last song that I made, it'll usually linger for a couple of months, and then it'll be put on the backburner, and then there'll be another song that I do, and then it often doesn't make it on the album.

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.

If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD.

Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.

My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man.

I'm not really book-smart.

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

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

I get offended when people say, 'So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!

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.

The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money.

Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person.

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

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 would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

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.

We sing for these kids who don't have a thing.