I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there.
In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

