I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

- Eminem

I'm not really book-smart.

- Eminem

I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.

- Eminem

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.

- Eminem

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

- Eminem

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

- Eminem

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

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

- Eminem

I'm very much a creature of habit.

- Eminem

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

- Eminem

Guns are bad, I tell you.

- 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 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

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

- Eminem

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

- Eminem

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

- Eminem

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

- Eminem

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

- Eminem

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.

- Eminem

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.

- Eminem