Latest Eminem Quotes from Interviews

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• It's just hard when you've spent so much time on something, writing and recording, laying the vocals, getting the hook right, getting the beat right, making everything sound right - you spent a freaking week trying to make it sound perfect, and someone comes along and shoots it down.

  Eminem

  Writing, Perfect, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one takes a minute.

  Eminem

  Song, Writing, Hard Times

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Touring used to be hard. Early on in my career when I was more in grind mode, I was doing two or three shows a day. It was tough because you start feeling like you have no life. That being said, I do enjoy actually doing the shows.

  Eminem

  Feelings, Tough, Like You

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• With every song, all the elements have to work. First, the beat has to be great - you start there. You start with the music, and then the ideas follow. Then you start thinking of rhymes, and then you record it, and sometimes - this happens to me a lot - it doesn't come out as good as it did in my head when I first wrote it.

  Eminem

  Song, Thinking, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If I'm not passionate about it, I can't write it. I can't fake it.

  Eminem

  Writing, Fake, Passionate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You're not going to hit it every single time, and that's why, when I record an album, I do probably close to 50 songs. Each song I record has to get better. If it's not better than the last song that I made, it'll usually linger for a couple of months, and then it'll be put on the backburner, and then there'll be another song that I do, and then it often doesn't make it on the album.

  Eminem

  Song, Couple, Get Better

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I haven't had a perfect career. I've put some albums out that, looking back, I'm not super proud of, but there's also a lot of stuff that I am very proud of.

  Eminem

  Perfect, Proud, Looking Back

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person.

  Eminem

  Growing Up, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I realize that some people see going away as, "Oh, he's irrelevant now," but I feel like if I don't go away, I get sick of myself. It's never been my thing to be in the spotlight all the time.

  Eminem

  People, Sick, Going Away

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You know how it is - you make songs, and as you make the new ones, the old ones get old and you throw them out.

  Eminem

  Song

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm certainly not a f**king fashion consultant. Don't call me if you want to know how to dress. I just rap. That's all I really know how to do.

  Eminem

  Fashion, Kings, Rap

  Source: www.rapbasement.com

• Coming up as an MC, I took the frustrations of the underground and brought it with me into the mainstream. I know there was a certain complex I had in the beginning that was just a little paranoid or a little...sensitive.

  Eminem

  Frustration, Littles, Sensitive

  Source: www.rapbasement.com

• Of all the albums I've made, I still don't feel like I've made the perfect album. I've had ones that touch on this, and others that touch on that, but never one that's just perfect and fully relevant. I don't know if I'll ever make it, but I'm certainly trying every day.

  Eminem

  Perfect, Trying, Albums

  Source: www.rapbasement.com

• The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money.

  Eminem

  Worst, Happened, Worst Things

  Source: www.rapbasement.com

• It's a trip when people take sobriety for granted. Feeling trapped in my addiction and then getting sober - you appreciate it so much more, because I didn't know if I would ever know what it's like to feel normal again, ever.

  Eminem

  People, Appreciate, Addiction

  Source: www.rapbasement.com

• When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

  Eminem

  Way, Hats, Behavior

  Source: www.rapbasement.com

• I'm kinda rather make people laugh I guess or cry or whatever but bragging about what I have for me personally uncharacteristic I guess.

  Eminem

  People, Laughing, Bragging

  "Feature: Eminem, Welcome Back". XXL Interview, www.xxlmag.com. May 18, 2009.

• Just never really got into cars and flossin' or never really cared, like I was always the type of person that felt like as long as I make enough money to support my family with this music that's all I really care about. You know what I mean so I don't really buy, I'm just not into like that many material possessions and stuff like that, because at the end of the day, it's just not that important.

  Eminem

  Mean, Long, Car

  "Feature: Eminem, Welcome Back". XXL Interview, www.xxlmag.com. May 18, 2009.