Raised in small-town Arkansas, Billy Bob Thornton grew up amid a rich storytelling tradition. See, the South is just different than other places. . . . You can feel the ghosts there. As a kid, he would sit on the porch listening to his family or some old man down the road spinning yarns about colorf[...]

There is - and could only ever be - one Billy Bob Thornton: actor, musician, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and accidental hollywood badass. In this text "The Billy Bob Tapes", he spins colourful tales of his dirt-poor southern upbringing, his Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (fear of komodo drag[...]