"Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me."
"I do promote violence and I don't give a fuck." - in reply to Time Magazine
"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'."
"A bunch of girls, swinging from a nice chandelier, landing on top of me naked: while I lay in a pool of steaming hot water!" - Eminem's Spring Break fantasy
"You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture: that's me" - on his fans
"I don't like rap anyways, I'm just trying to get my porno career started."
"Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night."
"I don't want them once they turn 18" - On Britney Spears & Christina Aguilera
"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"
"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"
"Look. I was pissed off!" That's all I could say. I really felt that I wanted to do that shit. At one point in time, I really wanted to do that shit. For real" - Eminem on Kim
"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." - Eminem on his suicide attempt
"Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that."
"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!" - Eminem on the question of race.
"The only job I need is a blow job"
