"Many people want and need someone to identify with, a man who is self-reliant, stands on his own two feet, and is not afraid to face adversity. They want to believe in me, just as I believed in John Wayne when I was a boy."

"I’m intensely private, and I’ve openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi. That’s served in the past to create an image of me where I’m always frowning or looking angry."

"I knew it had the potential to be something special right away. It was like meeting somebody that I've just known where you just recognize one another. It was so disproportionate, the level of emotion we were experiencing to the time we had spent together."

"Models, even male models — how small they've gotten! It looks great for the clothes, but it's not what you want in real life. Why do we have to keep looking at ourselves and measuring?"

"I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths."

"Truly, my first love."

"You could either be trapped by what was going on around you, or you could find a way out. I think that everything, even if it is scary or good, comes into our life to help elevate and expand us as human beings."

"My brain's gone, my soul's worn, my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein' operated on"

"Hey, Em! You know you're my favorite white boy, right? I owe you for this one."

"Kept my ear to the streets Signed Eminem, he's triple platinum, doing fifty a week"

"These rappers are like Hunger Games: one minute, they're mockin' Jay (Mockingjay) Next minute, they get their style from Migos or they copy Drake"

"So finger-bang, chicken wang, w:MGK, Igg' Azae' Lil Pump, Lil Xan imitate Lil Wayne I should aim at everybody in the game, pick a name I'm fed up with bein' humble And rumor is I'm hungry, I'm sure you heard bumblings I heard you wanna rumble like an empty stomach I heard your mumblin' but it's jumbled in mumbo-jumbo The era that I'm from will pummel you, that's what it's comin' to What the fuck you're gonna do when you run into it? I'm gonna crumble you and I'll take a number two and dump on you If you ain't Joyner If you ain't Kendrick or Cole or Sean then you're a goner"

"I'm packin' up my shit, as much shit in the car as I can fit And I'm just drivin' as far as I can get Away from these problems 'til all of my sorrows I forget What's tomorrow like? 'Cause tonight I'm startin' life again Get to the corner and stop, fuck am I goin'? Besides psycho when I fantasize startin' my whole life over"

"Donald Duck's on, there's a Tonka Truck in the yard But dog, how the fuck is Ivanka Trump in the trunk of my car?"

"She does that thing with her lip, now she's melting me I'm putty in her palms, I'm wrapped around her finger A yo-yo on a string, she lets me sit there and just dangle Until something better comes along and she'll just drop me like a hot potato"

"This love triangle left us in a wreck, tangled [rectangle]"

"It's never too late to start a new beginning"

"Got my faith, where's yours? Do you still believe in me? Didn't I give everything I had to give you to make you see?"

"I'm just a man, but as long as I got a mic, I'm godlike"

"It's true, I'm a Rubik's—a beautiful mess"

"They take your heart and steal your life And it's as though you feel you've died ‘Cause you've been killed inside But yet you're still alive Which means you will survive"

"I'da flipped every mattress, every rock and desert cactus Owned a collection of maps and followed my kids to the edge of the atlas If someone ever moved 'em from me"

"Ma, you're still beautiful to me, 'cause you're my mom"

"I make elevating music, you make elevator music"

"Summa-lumma, dooma-lumma, you assumin' I'm a human What I gotta do to get it through to you I'm superhuman?"

"I'm beginning to feel like a Rap God, Rap God"

"All my life I was told and taught I am not shit By you wack fuckin' giant sacks of lyin' dog shit Now you shut up, bitch, I am talkin' Thought I was full of horseshit and now you fuckin' worship the ground on which I am walkin'"

"So spread the word 'cause I'm promoting my past until I'm passed out"

"You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game"

"Y'all are Eminem backwards: you're mini-mes"

"Now get off my dick! Dick's too short of a word for my dick—get off my antidisestablishmentarianism, you prick!"

"I fell for this so many times it's ridiculous And still I stick with this, I'm sick of this But in my sickness and addiction, you're addictive as they get Evil as they come, vindictive as they make 'em"

"I poured my heart out to you, let down my guard, swear to God I'll blow my brains in your lap, lay here and die in your arms Drop to my knees and I'm pleading, I'm trying to stop you from leaving"

"And love is evil ("evol"): spell it backwards, I'll show ya"

"Man, get these wack cocksuckers off stage! Where the fuck is Kanye when you need him? Snatch the mic from 'em—bitch, I'ma let you finish in a minute!"

"They call me Fire Marshall: I shut the shit down"

"I'd shoot for the moon, but I'm too busy gazing at stars"

"Like a 'Fuck You' for Christmas, his gift is a curse"

"When it rains, guess it pours—yes, it does Wish there wasn't any pain, but I can't pretend there ain't I ain't placin' any blame I ain't pointin' fingers, Heaven knows I've never been a saint"

"This time around it's different, them last two albums didn't count Encore I was on drugs, Relapse I was flushin' 'em out"

"And any fan of mine who's a supporter of his [Trump] I'm drawing in the sand a line, you're either for or against And if you can't decide who you like more and you're split On who you should stand beside, I'll do it for it for you with this: Fuck you! The rest of America stand up! We love our military and we love our country, but we fucking hate Trump!"

"It's too late to start over, this is the only thing I know"

"Had a dream, I was king; I woke up, still king"

"I told the world one day I would pay it back Say it on tape, lay it, so that one day I could play it back"

"Turn Halloween back into a trick-or-treat holiday Have Michael Myers lookin' like a liar Swipe his powers, replace his knife with flowers and a stack of fliers Hit Jason Vorhees with a 40 Stuck a suppository up his ass and made him tell me a story Gave Hannibal Lector a fuckin' nectarine And sat him in the fuckin' fruit and vegetable section and gave him a lecture Walked up Elm Street with a fuckin' Wiffle bat drew Fought Freddy Krueger and Edward Scissorhands too"

"A lot of people ask me where the fuck I've been at the last few years? Shit, I don't know. But I do know I'm back now!"

"Nobody asked for life to deal us with these bullshit hands we're dealt We gotta take these cards ourselves and flip 'em, don't expect no help"

"If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet Then you would know I've completely lost it Is he nuts? No he's insane!"

"But then of course everything always happens for a reason I guess it was never meant to be But it's just something we have no control over and that's what destiny is"

"We're all we got in this world When it spins, when it swirls, when it whirls, when it twirls"