"We moved around a lot. When I was four years old, I heard ‘Fire and Rain’ a lot. So we were in Mexico and I was playing with a flashlight that was going dead, and we couldn’t afford any more batteries. My father asked me to please stop, but I wanted to see how far I could push someone, so I kept on turning it on and off. He said, ‘Could you please stop this?’ with a stern voice and took it out of my hand, put it in the glove box and slammed it. I felt this tremble, this fear of authority, and I felt I understood that you have to respect people. That there was a reason behind it. That was the first concept of reality as far as relationships go. I saw that there was not just this world of vagueness that you can bounce off of." - River Phoenix