Top 250 Eminem Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn’t recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.”

— Eminem

202. “It’s just hard to meet new people, in my position.”

— Eminem

203. “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

204. “If you get offended by my music, don’t listen to it.”

— Eminem

205. “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.”

— Eminem

206. “I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.”

— Eminem

207. “Honestly, I’d love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I’m doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I’m doing.”

— Eminem

208. “People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn’t concentrate on my problem.”

— Eminem

209. “Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.”

— Eminem

210. “If I had one wish I would ask for a big enough ass for the whole world to kiss.”

— Eminem

211. “Gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis, put my LP on your Christmas gift list.”

— Eminem

212. “I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot.”

— Eminem

213. “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

214. “You couldn’t make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.”

— Eminem

215. “My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man.”

— Eminem

216. “Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?”

— Eminem

217. “Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don’t think it was necessarily ’cause I’m stupid.”

— Eminem

218. “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

219. “As for being AIDS infested, I don’t know yet, I’m too scared to get tested.”

— Eminem

220. “Soul’s escaping through this hole that is gaping.”

— Eminem

221. “Thanks cuz your hate is what gave me this strength.”

— Eminem

222. “I’m an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don’t get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet.”

— Eminem

223. “Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one.”

— Eminem

224. “I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.”

— Eminem

225. “Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.”

— Eminem

226. “If I’m garbage, you’re a bunch of maggots.”

— Eminem

227. “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.”

— Eminem

228. “Don’t you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD.”

— Eminem

229. “Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.”

— Eminem

230. “Slim Shady, Eminem was the old initials.”

— Eminem

231. “I had too much Nyquil and Vivarin again. Lost my stomach all over the place.”

— Eminem

232. “I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.”

— Eminem

233. “I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.”

— Eminem

234. “It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.”

— Eminem

235. “Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.”

— Eminem

236. “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.”

— Eminem

237. “My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.”

— Eminem

238. “Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!”

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

240. “Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto, I’d say I lived in the ’hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.”

— Eminem

241. “Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.”

— Eminem

242. “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

243. “Guns are bad, I tell you.”

— Eminem

244. “Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.”

— Eminem

245. “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

246. “I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.”

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

248. “If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.”

— Eminem

249. “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.”

— Eminem

250. “Despite what I say in my songs, its never okay for a man to put his hands on a female.”

— Eminem