Eminem

"Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time."

"Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love."

"People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now."

"A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'"

"Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion."

"Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them."

"I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad."

"I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever."

"I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing."

"I need drama in my life to keep making music."

"I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it."

"I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it."

"I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me."

"I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked."

"If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down."

"It feels good to have your work respected again."

"My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him."

"The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate."

"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed."

"Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business."

"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."