Eminem

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

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

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'.

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.