Eminem Quotes

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

I do everything in this life-or-death way.

I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been done or is out of place.

If I wasn't going to be able to dance professionally, I wasn't going to dance. That's my all-or nothing personality coming out.

I'm an extremist. I don't do things in halves. I don't moderate anything. That can be with work or with good things as well. But often, I take it a bit too far.

I've got an addiction to this game. An addiction to being perfect.

I'm one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I'm out of control with it.

I've got quite an addictive personality where if I start doing something I try to do it to the best of my ability.

I'm a compulsive everything.

I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.

I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him. When I write, that takes over and I can't do anything else. There's something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up. I've lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.

With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.

I have an obsessive character. I manicure my nails at three in the morning because nobody else can do it the right way. Maybe that's the secret to my success.

Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

I'm a perfectionist, to the point of insanity.

I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.

The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things.

Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.

The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things.

I have to have everything in my life completely fixed and perfect and cleaned up and I have to be complete with everyone in my life and I have seven days in which to do that. So I might make it to day three or four, but I've never made it all the way to day seven.

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too.

Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.