Eminem continues on the comeback trail after releasing his first auto-biography, The Way I Am, last week.

Em recently sat down with BBC’s Radio 1 for an in depth interview about the book as well as his forthcoming LP Relapse.

Below are a few excerpts from the interview, you can check out the audio in its entirety below.

On Politics:

“I can’t get to political because I don’t know enough about everything to know what’s going on. I know we’re going into a recession–pardon the cliche’ but we need something to change. I think Barack  would be a breath of fresh air to get in there and actually get what’s left of the Bush administration out the there.”

On His Absence:

“When I said I was taking a break, basically I took a break from recording my own material and started producing for artists at the time at the label. Tryna really get serious about being a producer and step up in that way.”

“I’ve done what I wanna do in rap so far. But now, let me do what I wanna do in the producing and also help out other artists at the same time.”

On Relapse:

“For the past five months I’ve been working with Dre. There’s gonna be alotta material–more so than any album that I’ve had, with him producing.”

“I’ve been kinda giving him the driver seat lately. One of the best things about being able to work with Dre is that, obviously his beats are insane, but it’s also that I can write and not worry about what the beat has to sound like. It’s kinda like being spoiled.”

“I’m excited, I wanna get back out there.”

On expectations of  Relapse reaching the astronomical heights as his previous LPs:

“There’s no desire to be that big again. Whatever happens, I’ll take it, but that’s definitely not what I’ll be recording the songs for.”

Download the Eminem Interview here