I've Always Respected What Wayne

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.

I Don't Like To Give The Sob Story: Growing Up In A Single-parent Home, Never Knew My Father, My Mother Never Worked, And When Friends Came Over I'd Hide The Welfare Cheese. Yo, I Failed Ninth Grade Three Times, But I Don't Think It Was Necessarily 'cause I'm Stupid. I Didn't Go To School. I Couldn't Deal.

I'm Not Really Book-smart.

It's Just Hard When You've Spent So Much Time On Something, Writing And Recording, Laying The Vocals, Getting The Hook Right, Getting The Beat Right, Making Everything Sound Right - You Spent A Freaking Week Trying To Make It Sound Perfect, And Someone Comes Along And Shoots It Down.

I Have Nothing To Lose, But Something To Gain.