When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap. – Eminem
Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it. – Eminem
Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion. – Eminem
It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people. – Eminem
Five or six songs leaked from the original version of ‘Encore.’ So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them. – Eminem
Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap. – Eminem
It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter. – Eminem
A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I’m joking and when I’m serious. – Eminem
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. – Eminem
Hip hop has always been braggin’ and boasting and ‘I’m better at you than this’ and ‘I’m better at you than that.’ – Eminem
If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something. – Eminem
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. – Eminem
It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it’s all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening. – Eminem
