Eminem Quotes & Sayings

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

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it. — Eminem

Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil
We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people — Eminem

Be a king? Think not.
Why be a king when you can be a God? — Eminem

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack. — Eminem

You ever love somebody so much
You can barely breathe
When you're with them — Eminem

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream. — Eminem

My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the same rhyme — Eminem

I have big nuts. huge nuts. Elephantitis of the balls - that's what I have. — Eminem

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already: mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting
What he wrote down. The whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth but the words won't come out
He's choking, how? Everybody's joking now
The clock's run out, time's up, over - blaow! — Eminem

Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit — Eminem

I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives,
A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives,
Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents. — Eminem

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. — Eminem

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

When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom. — Eminem

Thanks cuz your hate is what gave me this strength. — Eminem

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. — Eminem

I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture ... that's me. — Eminem

I ain't looking back only forward. — Eminem

I had too much Nyquil and Vivarin again. Lost my stomach all over the place. — Eminem

In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum. — Eminem

I sold my soul to the devil. I'm going to hell. I'm headed to hell. I want the money, the women, the fortune, and the fame. That Means I'll end up burning in hell scorching in flames. Satan'll be in to see me later to see if I'm interested in being partners. Devil worshippin', Satan music. — Eminem

I will not fall, I will stand tall, feels like no one can beat me. — Eminem

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds. — Eminem

Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything. — Eminem

I don't think that anything anyone has to say should ever be censored or unheard — Eminem

But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane. — Eminem

They can trigger me. But they'll never figure me out. — Eminem

Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to
I just found out my mom does more dope than I do — Eminem

I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like. — Eminem

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am. — Eminem

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

I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me. — 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

If somebody is smoking a joint in a movie, I say it's a cigarette - a big cigarette if it's a Cheech and Chong movie. — Eminem

I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say? — Eminem

I just remembered that I'm absent minded ... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it. — Eminem

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. — Eminem

You may be gone but you're never over. — 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

As for being AIDS infested, I don't know yet, I'm too scared to get tested. — Eminem

Youre still beautiful to me, cause youre my mom. — Eminem

I have nothing to lose, but something to gain. — Eminem

I shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing the stars. — Eminem

Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that. — Eminem

I didn't just invent saying offensive things. — Eminem

If I had one wish I would ask for a big enough ass for the whole world to kiss. — Eminem

My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on. — Eminem

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

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy. — Eminem

Of course you don't want your kids swearing. But remember how fun it was to cuss when you were in the first grade? — Eminem

Question is are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid? — Eminem

If you aint like me, you aint gotta like me. — Eminem

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. — Eminem

We sing for these kids who don't have a thing. — Eminem

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid? — Eminem

We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house. — Eminem

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. — Eminem

Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly. — Eminem

I was a smart kid, but I hated school. — Eminem

I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by. — Eminem

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them. — Eminem

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. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch. — Eminem

I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow. — Eminem

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

Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are. — Eminem

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, i'll be nice to you. Simple as that! — Eminem

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'. — Eminem

God sent me to piss the world off! — Eminem

Be proud to be out of your mind and out of control. — Eminem

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. — 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

I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. — Eminem

I don't mean to be mean but that's all I can be, that's just me. — 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

I believe people can change, but only for the worse — Eminem

You know, I don't know if you know this about me or not, but I'm kind of a big deal. — Eminem

Me and Marcus Allen went over to see Nicole
We heard a knock at the door, must have been Ron Gold'
Jumped behind the door, put the orgy on hold
Killed em both and smeared blood on the white Bronco — 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

I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now! — Eminem

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate. — Eminem

You've got enemies? Good. That means you actually stood up for something in your life. — Eminem

Seize the moment and dont squander it. Cause you never know when it all could be over. — Eminem

I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it. — Eminem

But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our
checks in the mail. — Eminem

I had this whole Slim Shady concept of being two different people, having two different sides of me. One of them I was trying to let go, and I looked at the mirror and smashed it. That was the whole intro of the Slim Shady EP. Slim Shady was coming to haunt me ... — Eminem

Touring is hard on the body. — 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

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned. — Eminem

But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind — Eminem

I just drank a fifth of vodka, dare me to drive? — Eminem

I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white'. — Eminem

Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. — Eminem

Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me. — Eminem

If you get offended by my music, don't listen to it. — Eminem

I can never turn my back on a city that made me. — Eminem

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

Just promise me you'll think of me everytime you look up in the sky and see a star — Eminem

Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross. — Eminem

If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane! — Eminem