The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

It's always weird when things are targeted for young people, yet they're driven by people that are like 40 years too old. It can't be like this 70-year-old Jewish man that doesn't leave his desk all day, telling me what the clubs want to hear.

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

Is he [youth] not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.