Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin’ to borrow money. I’ve always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

The line contrasts two kinds of “generosity”: material help versus emotional availability. The speaker claims to have been openhanded with money—often the currency of obligation in friendships and family ties—yet “selfish” with love, implying a guardedness or inability to give intimacy, trust, or sustained care. It also hints at the isolating effect of being valued primarily for what one can provide financially, a dynamic that can distort relationships and reinforce emotional withdrawal. As a Pryor-style observation, it reads as confessional and ironic: the admission of selfishness about “the important stuff” reframes the usual moral hierarchy, suggesting that true generosity is measured less by cash than by vulnerability and affection.