Well, for the past few years I was living in Bayville, yeah? At the Xavier Institute. It was a place for people like me, mutants, to learn to control our powers. It was run by the Professor. He's a good guy. He can read minds, but even though he's powerful enough to control your thoughts and actions, he uses his powers to help people. Everyone there does. It's what the X-Men are about.

[The 'X' being the reason for those weird uniforms he and Rogue were wearing during he draft.]