A biography for Eminemhasn’t been written yet.
“I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.”
“Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!”
“I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.”
“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 always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.”
“I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.”
“My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.”
“Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.”
“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.”
“Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.”
“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.”
“My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.”
“Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.”
“Guns are bad, I tell you.”
“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.”
“Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.”
“The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.”