Marshall Bruce Mathers III Quotes
-
Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
-
Despite what I say in my songs, its never okay for a man to put his hands on a female.
-
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.'
-
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.
-
I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.
-
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.
-
My only scheme was to be a rapper.
-
Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!
-
Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
-
Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.
-
I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.
-
So many lives I touch, so much anger.
-
I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
-
Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?
-
When I die, so does hip hop.
-
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.
-
Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person.
-
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
-
I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
-
I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.
-
I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.
-
A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.
-
I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me.
-
I was born a premature birth. My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse" My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.