From Ian's blog -

people fear what they dony understand, societys reaction to this is to judge and point fingers. every body wants to be accepted and understood so they take the path of a sheep. people love to judge, as long as they have something or someone to judge they stay sane. they only do this because they have nothing better to do and to try and get a reaction. anyone who judges people for there looks with any bit of inteligence would see tht this is wrong and stop caring about our apperence and fucking look at there own apperence. to me personally in my life image and music works, i do what i do not to be like the rest and i dont do it to shock people with how i look but i do this to make me happy and not to please or to be something someone else wants to be. kids htese days need to start having there own thoughts and feelings and not grow up to fit in or to be like anyone else but to be who they want to be and not be something someone else would like them to be. something that will make them feel good. i dont just look like this when i go out and then when i get home i wash it all off. i get out of bed and this is me i go though the whole day i go to sleep get up again and this is still me. i dont do this for anyone else or for any type of show this is just who i want to be. if only people would judge me if they got to know me and whats on the inside and not my apperence, yeah i can get angry but on the other hand i like to make people laugh and i like to have fun. so we all need to look at ourselves and ask " is this me, do i really want to be something or someone im not''