A biography for Eminemhasn’t been written yet.
“If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.”
“Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'”
“The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.”
“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.”
“Let me remind you of what got me this far, picture me quitting, now draw a circle around it and put a line through it, sl#t!”
“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.”
“I was a smart kid, but I hated school.”
“I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'”
“Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.”
“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.”
“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 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 was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.”
“To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.”
“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.”
“Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.”
“Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.”
“Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.”
“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.”
“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.”