Words from Eminem

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I made it to keep in the vault for Hailie to hear when she got older and was able to understand it. […] When I played it for people they started liking it, so I was like, “okay.” I was a little embarrassed about putting it out at first. I’m never gonna hold back on expressing my love for my daughter. There’s nothing that can strip that. […] She knows [what I do] to some extent. I can’t imagine what a 6-year-old must think. — Eminem, BBC Radio 1, 2002

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I really dumped my feelings out in that song. I love my little girl enough to sing to her, for one, and two, it wasn’t easy what I went through last year. Divorce is the hardest thing that I’ve ever worked through — not that I’m bitter or anything like that. I’m a better person because I went through it, but it was hard at first. I’ve known this chick all my life, she’s the first true girlfriend that I ever had. You grow up with this person, and then they want to leave you. And at first you don’t know what to do. You know, I put the blame on everything. I put the blame on myself, I put the blame on my career. But as I got through it, I stepped back and looked at the whole picture. I realized it wasn’t my fault and there’s nothing I could have done. It was inevitable. It’s cool, me and Kim are on speaking terms, we can communicate, no hard feelings, fuck it. Didn’t work, you know, after eleven years. — Eminem, Rolling Stone, 2002