Dave Lee Travis has "always been a tactile person" but would not approach a stranger and "pinch their bottom", the former Radio 1 DJ has told a court.
He also told Southwark Crown Court Radio 1 had made him famous but that he also made personal appearances as the pay was "pretty pathetic".
Asked if he had worked since his arrest in November 2012, the 69-year-old said he had not "done a single thing".
Mr Travis denies two counts of indecent assault and one of sexual assault.
He is being retried on one count of indecent assault of a woman in the 1990s and another of sexual assault on a different woman in 2008 - after a jury failed to reach verdicts earlier this year.
Mr Travis, who is on trial under his real name, David Griffin, has also pleaded not guilty to an additional count of indecent assault alleged to have taken place in Manchester on 17 January 1995.
'Blurted out'Asked about his former Radio 1 colleague Jimmy Savile, he told the court that, while they were contemporaries, he "never had a sensible conversation with him because he put up a wall".
He added that Savile, who is thought to have sexually abused victims of all ages over decades, was seen as unprofessional because he would record the links between records rather than broadcast them live.
End Quote Dave Lee TravisThere's nothing to do with sleaze in whatever I do"
On Friday, one of Mr Travis's alleged victims - a journalist who said she interviewed him at his home - said he had showed her a photograph of a woman in a bikini and offered to take a similar picture of her.
She told the court: "I just blurted out, thinking it would put him off, 'well I don't think I have big enough boobs'.
"There was a split second and then he put his hands out and put them on my breasts."
She said he touched her for several seconds and then acted like nothing had happened.
Referring to the woman's claims, Mr Travis then told the jury: "There's nothing to do with sleaze in whatever I do."
On Thursday, the jury was shown a book Mr Travis had published featuring famous women he had photographed, including actresses Joanna Lumley, Maureen Lipman and singer Lynsey de Paul.
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