If you're laughing at Jaden Smith, he forgives you -- and feels love for you, trapped in a cavern of ignorance for all of your miserable days.
The celebriteen made Time's Most Influential Teens list for the second year running, so naturally, he spoke to the magazine about politics and his own birth. The magazine's Most Influential list also includes his prom date Amandla Stenberg, Malala Yousafzai, Malia Obama, Maisie Williams, Bethany Mota, Ahmed Mohamed, and Kylie and Kendall Jenner.
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The interview goes all the way back to the beginning of time: July 8, 1998.
"Being born was the most influential thing that’s ever happened to me, for myself," Smith tells Time.
A typical Jaden Smith Instagram:
A photo posted by Jaden Smith (@christiaingrey) on Oct 3, 2015 at 5:28pm PDT
He is both the greatest cynic and optimist of our time. He would like a woman to be our next president, even though the job is ultimately meaningless because lobbyists control everything. His goal is not to change the world; because people do that every single day, "my whole goal is to heal the entire planet."
He's not mad that people treat his musings on pesticides and the Vietnam War as a joke; he's just disappointed. "That’s the nature of human beings that are not aware."
He goes on to namecheck Galileo and mystic Edgar Kayce as examples of people who actually get it.
A photo posted by Jaden Smith (@christiaingrey) on Aug 21, 2015 at 3:56pm PDT
Smith also discusses his music career, and why he decided to release his music on an app. Apparently, he wanted to do that since he was 9, but couldn't swing the funds and logistics until he got on in years.
"And it took a 15-year-old to design it, pay for it, and get it out into the world for free," Smith explains before getting into his own definition of weird. "I actually am working on a more conventional album. It’s unconventional to me, because a conventional album for me is an app. It’s an extremely unconventional album for me. It’ll be conventional for everyone else."
A photo posted by Jaden Smith (@christiaingrey) on Aug 24, 2015 at 8:48pm PDT
But appreciate this gift while you have it -- he threatens that a decade from now, he will "be out of the sight of all people." What Jaden giveth, Jaden taketh away.