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If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

I feel like it's not a bad average for every album I've got in the United States to be nominated for something off the album.

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to.

To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.

I'm getting tired of 10.7s. I just want to put a good race together, and hopefully in the next race, I get the time I'm working for. I definitely think a 10.6 is there. Hopefully I will get it together.

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

The film's star, Eminem, doesn't appear to have a great deal of range, but he can play himself. Even though the protagonist is named Jimmy Smith, the thoughtful '8 Mile' is a raw version of the rapper's own story.

The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.