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"99% of my life I was lied to. I just found out my mom does more dope than I do(Damn!). I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it after her (-Oh, thank you!)."
"I had this whole Slim Shady concept of being two different people, having two different sides of me. One of them I was trying to let go, and I looked at the mirror and smashed it. That was the whole intro of the Slim Shady EP. Slim Shady was coming to haunt me."
"Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?"
"You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, 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."
"England? England is in London right?"
"I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker."
"Gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis, put my LP on your Christmas gift list."
"The reality is you do not know exactly what is likely to occur tomorrow. Lifetime can be a ridiculous trip, and practically nothing is confirmed."
"In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum."
"I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it."
"Fame hit me like a ton of bricks."
"Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it."
"I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever."
"And all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony."
"I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am."
"Just promise me you'll think of me everytime you look up in the sky and see a star"
"Opportunity may only come once in a lifetime."
"My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be."
"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."
"Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge."