Haruki Murakami Quotes

I just do what I want to do. I look at what's interesting to me.

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

I'll stop doing everything that I do when I don't want to do it anymore.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

I only do what I like to do.

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

If it looks like fun, and it looks like quality, then I'll do it. I don't feel compelled to work - or not to work.

I don't want to be an opinion anchor.

I can't force myself to do anything I don't wanna do, really. I never have.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

I always try and decide what I'm interested in, and I just do that.

I just try and decide what I'm interested in and what excites me. I don't worry about how it's going to be perceived.

I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens.

There's nothing, nobody can pay me enough money and nobody can do enough for me to wear something I don't want.

You make yourself be whatever the hell you want to be, at the end of the day.

There should be no hindrance to what we want to do, what we want to wear, what we think and how we want to travel. Do what you want to do as long as you are not breaking any law.

You just gotta live your life and do it your way.

I am not defined to be in any mould and I can be whatever I want to be.