Eminem Quotes
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201. “Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless.”

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

204. “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

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

— Eminem

206. “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

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

211. “The moment I used my adversity to my advantage, my career exploded.”

— Eminem

212. “It’s not a contest, and I ain’t on no conquest for no mate.”

— Eminem

213. “I try to keep it positive and play it cool, shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school.”

— Eminem

214. “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

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

— Eminem

216. “I Like Gay Men, Right Ken?”

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

221. “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

222. “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

223. “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

224. “The last time that life kicked me in the ass, I pulled down its pants and put a foot up its ass.”

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

226. “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

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

229. “My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.”

— Eminem

230. “God gave you them shoes to fit you, so put them on and wear them. Be yourself man, be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, don’t let no one tell you, you ain’t beautiful.”

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

233. “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

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

— Eminem

235. “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

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

239. “The emotions in a song – the anger, aggression – have got to be legitimate.”

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

241. “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

242. “Guns are bad, I tell you.”

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

244. “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

245. “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

246. “Rap will never be the same as before.”

— Eminem

247. “I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.”

— Eminem

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

— Eminem

249. “I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.”

— Eminem

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

— Eminem