Marshall Bruce Mathers III Quotes
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If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD.
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I'm not afraid to take a stand. Everybody come take my hand. We'll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm. Just let you know that, you're not alone. Holla if you feel that you've been down the same road.
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I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.
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I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.
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I need drama in my life to keep making music.
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We sing for these kids who don't have a thing.
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I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.
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I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.
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But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind.
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Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.
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Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.
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Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
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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.
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Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything.
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I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
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I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look like
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I'm not really book-smart.
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I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human.
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I'm standing on my Monopoly board that means I'm on top of my game
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The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.
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If I'm not passionate about it, I can't write it. I can't fake it.
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Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it.
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It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me Admittedly I probably did it subliminally for you
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Ain't nothin' but a whole lot of suckin' goin' on in rap.