Billy Bob Thornton

Like our history, when I was, you know, listening to, you know, whoever, Cream or Jimi Hendrix or Traffic or whatever, I still knew who Billie Holiday and Jimmy Rogers, the singing breakman, were, you know.

Now, a lot of people think Ozzy Osbourne was just a guy on a reality show.

It's like, no, he was in a band called Black Sabbath way back in the late 60s.

And I think history is important for us.

I think if you don't know where shit comes from,

You know, I think it's part of what you put into your art or your influences and also to see what they went through to get where they were.

You know, I just think it's important.

I mean, with anybody, politicians, how many people know that Benjamin Franklin, you know, Benjamin Franklin, oh, he's the guy who flew a kite and, you know, discovered how to make electricity come to some other place or whatever.

But, you know, they're fighting over states, right?

You know, when there weren't that many states.

And it's like, well, wait a minute.

We're in New York.

We got way more people than you do in, you know, Virginia or whatever it was.

And so we get more representatives and senators, you know, than they do.

You know, they only get one or whatever.

Well, Benjamin Franklin comes in, who's one of my heroes.

He made sense about shit.

He comes in and he says, tell you what.

How about you have more state representatives than they do because you got more people in your state.

But how about in terms of the Senate?