Just read excerpts from Jaden and Willow
Smith’s interview with T magazine and I’m not so sure that these kids
are totally alright…lol. In the interview, Jaden 16 and Willow, 14, talk
about quantum physics, meditation, their ability to control time, why
school is useless, that they write their own novels because there are no
good novels out there, how babies remember when they are born and so
many weird stuff. Read below, from T Magazine
Q: What have you been reading?Willow: Quantum physics. Osho.Jaden: “The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life” and ancient texts; things that can’t be pre-dated.
I’m curious about your experience
of time. Do you feel like life is moving really quickly? Is your music
one way to sort of turn it over and reflect on it?
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.
What are some of the themes that recur in your work?
JADEN: The P.C.H. being one of them; the melancholiness of the ocean; the melancholiness of everything else.
WILLOW: And the feeling of being like, this is a fragment of a holographic reality that a higher consciousness made.
JADEN: [bursts into laughter] As
soon as me and Willow started releasing music, that’s one thing that the
whole world took away is, okay, they unlocked another step of honesty.
If these guys can be honest about everything, then we can be more
honest.
How have you gotten better?
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.
Do you think of your new music as a continuation of your past work?
JADEN: I think Willow’s had a huge evolution.
WILLOW: I mean, “Whip My Hair” was
a great thing. When I look back I think, “Wow, I did so much for young
black girls and girls around the world. Telling them that they can be
themselves and to not be afraid to be themselves.” And I’m doing that
now but in a whole different way, coming from source energy and
universal truths. People will be, like, “Oh, I’m not going to make a
song about exactly how I feel, all the bad ways that I feel, and put it
out in the world so everyone can judge me.” But for me, it’s a part of
me, it’s my artistic journey.
JADEN: That’s another thing: What’s your job, what’s your career? Nah, I am. I’m going to imprint myself on everything in this world.
How do you write? What’s your process?
JADEN: She gets in the booth and just starts singing.
WILLOW: I mean, the beat is
usually what moves me. Or I think of concepts. Then when I hear a beat
that is, like, elaborating on that concept, I just go off.
JADEN: She freestyles and finds out what she likes. Same thing with me.
WILLOW: You piece it together. You piece together those little moments of inspiration.
What are you searching for in those pieced-together moments?
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.
But do your collaborative relationships inspire you in different directions?
JADEN: Totally.
WILLOW: Me and Jaden just figured out that our voices sound like chocolate together. As good as chocolate tastes, it sounds that good.
How does fashion relate to what you do?
JADEN: Willow just dropped a song
(“Cares”), let me quote the lyrics: “I do not care what people say.” We
both don’t really care. I like to wear things that I make, but I throw
it on as though I was throwing on anything. It looks cool, sometimes.
WILLOW: I like to go to places
with my high-fashion things where there are a lot of cameras. So I can
just go there and be like, “Yep, yep, I’m looking so sick.” But in my
regular life, I put on clothes that I can climb trees in.
What are the things worth having?
JADEN: Something that’s worth buying to me is like Final Cut Pro or Logic.
WILLOW: A canvas. Paint. A microphone.
JADEN: Anything that you can shock
somebody with. The only way to change something is to shock it. If you
want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society
to change, you have to shock them.
WILLOW: That’s what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.
You mentioned breathing earlier, and it’s also an idea that recurs in your songs.
WILLOW: Breathing is meditation;
life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing
is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.
JADEN: When babies are born, their
soft spots bump: It has, like, a heartbeat in it. That’s because energy
is coming through their body, up and down.
WILLOW: Prana energy.
JADEN: It’s prana energy because they still breathe through their stomach. They remember. Babies remember.
WILLOW: When they’re in the
stomach, they’re so aware, putting all their bones together, putting all
their ligaments together. But they’re shocked by this harsh world.
JADEN: By the chemicals and things, and then slowly…
WILLOW: As they grow up, they start losing.
JADEN: You know, they become just like us.
So is the hardest education the unlearning of things?
WILLOW: Yes, basically, but the crazy thing is it doesn’t have to be like that.
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.
So what’s next?
JADEN: I have a goal to be just
the most craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean,
like, I want to do like Olympic-level things. I want to be the most
durable person on the planet.
WILLOW: I think by the time we’re 30 or 20, we’re going to be climbing as many mountains as we can possibly climb.
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