"Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose)." ― Haruki Murakami Topic(s): Music More From Haruki Murakami "I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five." "I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run." "Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing." More In Music "Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads."― Maynard James Keenan "I’ve always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that’s the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways."― Joaquin Phoenix "Do I listen to pop music because I’m miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?"― John Cusack