The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
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.
Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.
I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.
A lot of truth is said in jest.
I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.
To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.
Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?
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.
I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.
It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.
I was a smart kid, but I hated school.
I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.
My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.
I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.
The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.
Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.
I need drama in my life to keep making music.
Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
I need to keep working on myself for a while.
Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'
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.
I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
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.
If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.
Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.
Guns are bad, I tell you.
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.
I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'
When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
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.
I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
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.
I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.
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.
I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
