Billy Bob Thornton goes to town with mustard

CHRIS NEUMER: Dare I ask what you’ve been doodling there?

BILLY BOB THORNTON: Oh, yeah. I doodle all the time during interviews and stuff. I can’t sit still and I’ll start pulling the tablecloth up, it’s almost like I have tourette’s.

CHRIS NEUMER: Well, that’s good news for me.

BILLY BOB THORNTON: I’ll turn the TV on or whatever. What if your name were Peter Guber?

CHRIS NEUMER: You could put millions of dollars worth of bowling alleys into Sony.

BILLY BOB THORNTON: This is a great magazine. It’s like, in the music business, there’ll be a magazine that a guy starts and it’ll be a little edgier and one vision kind of thing.

CHRIS NEUMER: Exactly. And that vision is mine. It beats working for a bank.

BILLY BOB THORNTON: Yeah, I’ll agree. I just draw these weird faces and stuff.

CHRIS NEUMER: Are these the people who have been interviewing you?

BILLY BOB THORNTON: Some of them are. This is one of the guys at the roundtable (laughs). That’s him.

CHRIS NEUMER: I’m both eager to see what I’d look like in your hand and scared at the same time.

BILLY BOB THORNTON: (laughs) I do these cartoons. I can’t really draw, but that makes them funnier. This says, "Last year, Bertram ran for student council… and he caught them".

CHRIS NEUMER: That’s kind of like, "I miss my husband, but my aim’s getting better."

BILLY BOB THORNTON: (laughs) Exactly.