“To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.”
– Eminem Zitate
“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 Zitate
“You don’t get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.”
– Eminem Zitate
“Don’t ever try to judge me dude, you don’t know what the f**k I’ve been through.”
– Eminem Zitate
“You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you actually stood up for something.”
– Eminem Zitate
“You can make something of your life. It just depends on your drive.”
– Eminem Zitate
“Sometimes you just gotta let s*** go and say ‘To hell with it’ and move on.”
– Eminem Zitate
“Don’t let them say you ain’t beautiful. They can all get f****d, just stay true to you.”
– Eminem Zitate
“Be proud of who you are.”
– Eminem Zitate
“In my mind I’ma fighter, my heart’s a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.”
– Eminem Zitate
“You gotta find that inner strength and just pull that s*** out of you. And get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall on your face and collapse.”
– Eminem Zitate
“We sing for these kids who don’t have a thing.”
– Eminem Zitate
“Behind every successful person lies a pack of haters.”
– Eminem Zitate
“Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.”
– Eminem Zitate
“It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me. Admittedly I probably did it subliminally for you.”
– Eminem Zitate
“The moment I used my adversity to my advantage, my career exploded.”
– Eminem Zitate
“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’.”
– Eminem Zitate
“Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?”
– Eminem Zitate
“I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.”
– Eminem Zitate
“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.”
– Eminem Zitate
“Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.”
– Eminem Zitate
”Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.”
– Eminem Zitate
“Yeah, it’s been a ride I guess I had to go to that place to get to this one. Now some of you might still be in that place. If you’re trying to get out, just follow me, I’ll get you there.”
– Eminem Zitate
“A normal life is boring.”
– Eminem Zitate
“I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book-smart.”
– Eminem
“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.”
– Eminem
“I started learning how to not be so angry about things, learning how to count my f—ing blessings instead. By doing that, I’ve become a happier person, instead of all this self-loathing I was doing for a while.”
– Eminem
“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
“Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.”
– Eminem
“Cause sometimes, you just feel tired. Feel weak. And when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you. You gotta find that inner strength, and just pull that shit out of you. And get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter.”
– Eminem
“There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.”
– 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
“The emotions in a song – the anger, aggression – have got to be legitimate.”
– Eminem
“Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.”
– Eminem
“I’m just a little bit sicker than the average individual I think.”
– Eminem
“We’ll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm.”
– 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
“I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.”
– Eminem
“It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.”
– Eminem
“I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.”
– Eminem
“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.”
– Eminem
“I don’t do ‘black music,’ I don’t do ‘white music’…I make fight music, for high school kids.”
– Eminem
“I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.”
– Eminem
“Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.”
– Eminem
“Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.”
– Eminem
“I felt like I had a really bad case of writer’s block… Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.”
– Eminem
“The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.”
– Eminem