Eminem Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“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 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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I didn't just invent saying offensive things.”

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

“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.”

“Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.”