NEW YORK: Billy Bob Thornton says he and former wife Angelina Jolie had “a great relationship” but different ideas about how they wanted to live their lives.

“It was a great relationship,” Thornton tells GQ in its April issue. “For the time we were together, we loved each other and we did it all the way. We didn’t leave any stone unturned. But we had different ideas about how we wanted to live our lives — that’s all it was.”

The couple married in May 2000. They bragged about their sex lives in interviews and, at one time, wore vials of each other’s blood around their necks. They divorced in 2003.

On whether he cheated on Jolie, Thornton told the magazine: “No, no, no. That was the rumour but that was never it.”Jolie is now a UN goodwill ambassador and proud mom of Maddox, whom she adopted from Cambodia. Her new film, ‘Taking Lives’, opened in theatres recently. “She’s all over the world, and I respect her for it,” Thornton told the magazine. “I want to stay home.”Thornton plays Davy Crockett in ‘The Alamo’, set for release on April 9. — AP