Jaden and Willow Smith, the sometimes controversial offspring of Hollywood power couple Will and Jada Pinkett Smith sat for their first joint interview where they shared their interesting views about time, education and being artists. Be amazed inside...
Thanks to The New York Times "T" Magazine, we've got perhaps the most in-depth look into the minds of Willow and Jaden Smith, the home-schooled children of mega-rich power couple Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. One thing you'll notice immediately is that the kids are very intelligent. No matter how "out there" their thinkings and thought processes might seem, it's clear that at 16 (Jaden) and 14 (Willow) they're well-read, well-traveled, and very worldly - more than most adults.
In their first joint interview, we get to see what makes them tick, how and why they express themselves through music and fashion and their plans for the future. It's also pretty entertaining to see how self-confident they are. At one point, Jaden reveals that he makes music because he doesn't like anyone else's while Willow writes her own novels because there's nothing else out there to enjoy.
JADEN: Honestly, we’re just trying to make music that we think is cool. We don’t think a lot of the music out there is that cool. So we make our own music. We don’t have any song that we like to listen to on the P.C.H. by any other artist, you know?
WILLOW: That’s what I do with novels. There’re no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it’s the best thing.
JADEN: Willow’s been writing her own novels since she was 6.
Alright then......here are the highlights:
TIME Is Not REAL:
WILLOW: I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please, and that’s how I know it doesn’t exist.
JADEN: It’s proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It’s relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.
WILLOW: Because living.
JADEN: Right, because you have to live. There’s a theoretical physicist inside all of our minds, and you can talk and talk, but it’s living.
WILLOW: It’s the action of it.
ON THE DANGERS OF THINKING:
WILLOW: Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.
JADEN: Exactly. Because your mind has a duality to it. So when one thought goes into your mind, it’s not just one thought, it has to bounce off both hemispheres of the brain. When you’re thinking about something happy, you’re thinking about something sad. When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple. It’s a tool for understanding mathematics and things with two separate realities. But for creativity: That comes from a place of oneness. That’s not a duality consciousness. And you can’t listen to your mind in those times — it’ll tell you what you think and also what other people think.
WILLOW: And then you think about what you think, which is very dangerous.
ON EDUCATION And Why Schools Don't Work:
JADEN: Here’s the deal: School is not authentic because it ends. It’s not true, it’s not real. Our learning will never end. The school that we go to every single morning, we will continue to go to.
WILLOW: Forever, ‘til the day that we’re in our bed.
JADEN: Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.
WILLOW: They never want to do anything, they’re so tired.
JADEN: You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.
WILLOW: I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience. The best experience because I was, like, “Oh, now I know why kids are so depressed.” But it was the worst experience because I was depressed.
Read the entire profile here. And in terms of music, Willow’s “3″ is available now and Jaden released “Cool Tapes Vol. 2″ this week.
Photos via NYT/Nathaniel Wood
