Tuesday, June 22, 2010 1:14pm ET by  

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Eminem on his new outlook

Rapper Eminem has admitted that he felt childlike after beating his addiction to prescription drugs. 

In an interview on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show, he said that sobriety made him see the world through new eyes. 

"I almost felt like everything was new to me again," he explained. "The recording process was new, trees were new to me, nature - things that I never would appreciate before, I started learning to appreciate," he revealed.

He continued, "I felt like I was born again, so everything was all new, I was like a brand new baby. I got very happy with my sobriety and I started to get very giddy, so everything was just like a lot of laughter that replaced a lot of that sadness. I got really happy, so I wanted to write funny things. I was laughing again, i was joking again, so I feel like I was a little happy almost to the point where I was giddy, so those are the kind of records I was making. Now that I've settled into sobriety, I feel like I'm going back to normal."