There’s been a lot of really cool stuff that’s happened to me throughout my career, and I remember everything, but I don’t think I savored every moment of it like I should have or like I do now.

Nichols reflects on the difference between remembering success and truly inhabiting it. The quote contrasts a career’s outward milestones (“really cool stuff”) with an inward practice of appreciation (“savored every moment”). It suggests that ambition, pressure, or constant forward motion can dull one’s ability to feel gratitude in real time, even when achievements are recognized later. The final clause—“like I do now”—implies a hard-won maturity: experience has taught him to slow down, notice, and value moments as they occur. As a statement about artistic life, it frames fulfillment not as a tally of accomplishments but as the capacity to be present for them.