Eminem

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I don't think I've ever read poetry ever.

I'm not really book-smart.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

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?

I'm very much a creature of habit.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I might talk about killing people but that doesn't mean I do it.

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.

I realized 'Yo I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

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.

My thing is this, if I'm sick enough to think it then I'm sick enough to say it.

Before I was famous when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge everything was moving in slow motion.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

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.

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself, if someone really wanted to get at me they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

It's just hard to meet new people in my position.

I'd go to like six different schools in one year. We were on welfare and my mom never ever worked.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

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.

You know fame is a funny thing man especially you know actors musicians rappers rock singers it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars you go to clubs everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me he just can't be found.

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

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 love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

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.

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.

These times are so hard and they're getting even harder.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

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 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.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie I wanted it to be authentic.

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.

Touring is hard on the body.

Now that I understand that I'm an addict I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

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.

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'.