"Do not do drugs, no unprotected sex, not violence. Leave it to me."
- Eminem
"Step by step, heart to heart, left right left We all fall - Like Toy Soldiers ... Little by little, broken, never going to win but the battle rages on - for toy soldiers ..."
- Eminem
Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I should think of t `. Not to be gimmick, but people should be able to decide when I `m seriously, and when I` m fuckin around. It `s why many of my songs are funny. I have a warped sense of humor I guess. - In his alter-ego, Slim Shady.
"To all the people who never gave love, and continue to deny me 'cuz of what I look like: suck my dick you fucks!!!" - On people who are unsupportive
"There's a difference between realness and an act, and they're an act, and they know they're an act, and they even say they're an act, they even say they're cornballs, they admit it." - On ICP
"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." - On his wife Kim
"My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him." - On his Dad
"My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood." - On his family
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." .- On his early education "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." - On growing up in the hood
"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." - On his childhood
"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'." – About his attitude
"I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it." - On his philosophy for life
"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." - About his lyrics
"It doesn't exactly feel like a shock, but it's all new to me, and I'm taking it in as it comes." - On his rise to fame
"Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that." - About his attitude
"To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway." – Random comment
"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." - On his suicide attempt
"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…" - On his Slim Shady alter ego
"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'." - On his race
"Unless you want to fuck me, why do you care what I look like?" - On his race