He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer.

Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.

My memories of events and games are fragmented.

“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”

"Some people say I will never return home"

Once Michael gets up there he says, 'Well, maybe I'll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.' Then all of a sudden, he says, 'Well, maybe I'll 360. No I changed my mind. I'll go up on the other side.' He's just incredible.

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

Obviously, fans are the beginning and end for any artist. The minute your fans embrace you and accept you, you begin this ride of being in music and having a career doing something you love. You get to go be a kid and live out your dreams by performing music for fans who come out to your shows.

I just like Forrest Gump. Maybe I'm a little smarter than him, maybe I'm not. Probably because of the whole Southern aspect of his character and for some reason I always wind up on the better end of all deals... I've just kind of got the old silly boy luck!

My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.

If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess.

My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.

I used to work at my dad's peanut mill, and worked 15 hours a day, 6 days a week. So, now, riding around on a nice tour bus and doing shows, you'd have to get picky to have a downside.

"If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice."

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

Growing up, I always had my dreams set on being an actor, so I looked up to Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn.

Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant, you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.

"Great companies don't just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments."

"No, memory is true as long as you do not set it, as long as it is not enclosed in a form."

"Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become."

"Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased."

"As the memory of the tech bust fades, we seem to be getting better and better job growth."