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."
"My earliest memory was raping the babysitter when I was 5...she was 15"
"I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal."
"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"
"My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood."
"My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him."
"There were times when friends had to buy me fuckin' shoes!"
"At this point, I'm like "Come up with something new." I hate the same old questions. But it seems like "white" magazines such as Spin and Rolling Stone focus on my "whiteness" more than Black magazines."
"It's funny how all the magazines can dwell on my race, but they could NEVER say that my shit is whack because they know my shit is tight!"
"All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face."
"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'."
"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'."
"Unless you want to fuck me, why do you care what I look like?"
"I get offended when people say, `So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!"
"I mean I got jumped, fucked up shit happened to me a few times, but that happens to everybody. I don't think it has anything to do with color or any of that shit. It's just all a part of growing up."
" Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that."
"I'm not alone in feeling the way I feel. I believe that a lot of people can relate to my shit--whether white, black, it doesn't matter. Everybody has been through some shit, whether it's drastic or not so drastic. Everybody gets to the point of 'I don't give a fuck'."
"I took a lot of them, I took a bunch of pain killers - Tylenol. I took 13, 16 of 'em and fuckin' threw 'em up. I thought I was going die, I thought I was going to die for real."
"Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up."
"I had nothing to lose, but something to gain. If I made an album for me and it was to my satisfaction, then I succeeded. If I didn't, then my producers were going to give up on the whole rap thing we were doing. I made some shit that I wanted to hear. The Slim Shady EP, I lashed out on everybody who talked shit about me."
"One thing Iwon't do is put out another song like 'My Name Is',I can't stand that fucking song.This album (MMLP) is rawer. Fans looking for bubblegum rap aren't going to get it here."
"Anybody with a sense of humour is going to put on my album (MMLP) and laugh from beginning to end."
"A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious."
"If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business."
"I was takin' a shit. I swear to God. And the fuckin' name just popped into my head. Then I started thinkin' of twenty million things that rhymed with it."
"Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm fuckin around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess."
"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, was coming to haunt Eminem."
"When I was 9 years old, my uncle put me on to the Breakin' soundtrack. The first rap song I ever heard was Ice-T, 'Reckless.' From L.L. to the Fat Boys, and all that shit, I was fascinated. When L.L. first came out with 'I'm Bad', I wanted to do it, to rhyme. Standing in front of the mirror, I wanted to be like L.L."
"It was an honor to hear the words out of Dre's mouth that he liked my shit. Growing up, I was one of the biggest fans of N.W.A, from putting on the sunglasses and looking in the mirror and lipsinking, to wanting to be Dr. Dre, to be Ice Cube. This is the biggest hip-hop producer ever."
"The energy was crazy. He (Marilyn Manson) just came out for that song, in the middle of the song. He sang the chorus with me and the audience went nuts. He's a sick man; he's a sick individual. I thought I was a little out there, but this man ... he is gone."
"I would never fucking put them (Beastie Boys) in a rhyme. I don't even want them wondering if I was trying to diss them. I got a lot of love for them. I grew up on that shit.
"Who's Tony Blair, did he get his dick sucked? Oh he ain't shit then..."
"There's a difference between realness and an act, and they're an act (ICP), and they know they're an act, and they even say they're an act, they even say they're cornballs, they admit it."
"I don't want them (Britney und Christina) once they turn 18"
"I hate bitches. [One] fucked up, and it made me look at girls as sluts."
"I do promote violence and I don't give a fuck."
"I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and N.W.A. and I never went out and shot nobody."
"Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence."
"Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me."
"Never take ecstasy, beer, bacardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night."
"Some asshole kept throwing oranges and other fruit at me while I was onstage. Fucker had an arm like a major league pitcher..."
"I'm gonna sit my stinkin' ass right down next to 'N Sync and f**king flick pennies at them and f**kin' stare right in everybody's face and say,' kiss my ass'," he continued, referring to the multi-platinum boy band he loves to hate."
"I don't like rap anyways, I'm just trying to get my porno career started."
"It (His Success) doesn't exactly feel like a shock, but it's all new to me, and I'm taking it in as it comes."
"To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway." (Widmung auf der SSLP)