The 6 most ridiculous quotes from GQ's interview with Jaden Smith, ranked

Jaden Smith doesn't care if people think he's crazy, and his latest interview with GQ certainly reflects that. The article reads much like a sequel to the delightfully bizarre interview he did with his sister Willow last year for T Magazine, which "left everyone convinced they were drunk on prana energy," GQ's Zach Baron said.
Below, the six strangest things Smith told GQ:
6. On his aspirations: "I rarely go to parties. My whole life is just dedicated on learning and breaking, like, the craziest records of life, and being like one of the craziest human beings to ever exist. That's me."
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5. On celebrity: "Me and Willow are scientists, so everything for us is a scientific test upon humanity. And luckily we're put in a position where we can affect large groups of human beings at one time."
4. On formal education: "I'll go to college. I want to set up offices at MIT just so I can learn and bring in new technologies into the world. Definitely sit in on lectures in college. I've done that already. Like, go sit in that, you know, USC, UCLA, MIT, you know, anything I can get my hands on."
3. On being self-made: "Like, the clothes I'm wearing right now, done it on my own. I built my own bed, I built my own closet, um, I built two closets, I built four beds, I built, um, one pyramid —"
2. On where he think's he'll be 10 years from now: "Gone. [...] No one will know where I am in ten years. They'll see me pop up, but they'll be like, ‘Where'd you come from?’ No one will know. No one will know where I'm at. No one will know who I'm with. No one will know what I'm doing. I've been planning that since I was like 13."
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1. On giving bizarre interviews: "It's fun, bro. That's what a lot of people don't realize. [...] People think you're crazy — I feel like it's an honor, actually, for people to think I'm crazy. Because they thought Galileo was crazy, too, you know what I'm saying? I don't think I'm as revolutionary as Galileo, but I don't think I'm not as revolutionary as Galileo."
Read the full interview over at GQ.
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