Possible Clues:

• Having 'I' problems?
• Selfish
• Devoted to one's own interests
• Like some poor team players
• Self-absorbed
• Thus I often puffed stogie, rolled I see
• That's being all my eye, by the sound of it
• Quote about success is held to be self-seeking
• Self-centred or self-important
• Say is to do with the ear going round or to do with oneself