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One sings about 9/11, the other sings about the wild, wild life. One has been censored by Peter Jennings, the other has been on The Simpsons. But don't think the differences stop there.
Toby Keith: "I'm a hayseed cowboy ... and I'm a Patriots fan!"
David Byrne: "I had demons and felt socially inept. In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about."
Toby Keith: "I trust that I'm smart enough to know that I'm not as smart as Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell and Bush, and I've got to allow them to do their job."
David Byrne: "The Bush years have been emotional. They've been driving me crazy. Not so much a guy or an administration, but the fact that large portions of the population seem to go along with it and be swept up in some kind of weird, feverish hallucination."
Toby Keith: "I don't think women want some prim and proper guy. I mean, time and time again, I'll be talking to a girl and I'll say, 'So you're not dating him anymore?' And she'll say, 'No.' Then I'll say, 'Why, was he too good to you?' And she'll say, 'Yeah, he was good to me.'
David Byrne: "I am attracted to something that looks conservative on the surface, but there's something that betrays it, there's a twist."
Toby Keith: "[My son] knows to use his manners in front of the ladies. If it's just me and him out having a hamburger and he burps real good, we high-five. If his mother is there and he burps, he tries to high-five me and I say, 'Nope, we have a lady present.' Then he'll say, 'Excuse me.'
David Byrne: "Lately I'm getting better in normal relationships, as in saying 'please' and 'thank you,' things like that.
Toby Keith: "I am a Ford truck man through-and-through. I couldn't imagine myself as anything else."
David Byrne: "I like to make fun of the mechanistic notion that we're just fleshy computers, or that 100 years ago, we were just very, very elaborate steam engines."