Roseanne On Health And Medicine

Does meditation really improve your health?

It really helps me to clean up my own mind and makes me sure of what it is I actually want. It also helped me to realize what's important now. What's the most important thing? That's what everyone should ask themselves that every minute; what is the most important thing? Meditation helps you to figure out what that is.

What's most important to you?

To me the most important thing is peace on earth and anything that doesn't serve that, it's got to go. In my life and I've kind of made that, I've kind of taken, I've kind of made that commitment to myself that I would, I would figure out what the most important thing is and I would try to live my life as, you know in service of that. So it's peace on earth, it's peace inside makes peace on earth.

What's wrong with the way Americans eat?

We're eating way too much corn syrup and that's what causes all of our heart... and all of our problems. They pump it in every place they can't keep it out and people gain twenty pounds on their ass and then their whole life is about getting that twenty pounds off.

Will there ever be socialized medicine in America?

There will be... and there already is socialized medicine in America, in the Army - and for immigrants who come here, they got it, too. The only people who don't get it are the American worker, and they don't get it because insurance companies have split up that pie amongst themselves. But it will happen, it'll happen within ten years, it's coming. They can't hold it back anymore. It'll be good. When you can give, like what is it, 800 billion to blow people up, and not 35 million for kids... You've got to be "march of the guillotine," - I'm sorry, here I go again - or sent to another planet. That's when you know you're off your nut. But it will happen. I think that's what Hillary represents and whether she wins or not, it will happen.

What's a 'normal' state of mind in America?

Being normal in America is being blind, drunk, drugged, crazy, and self-obsessed. Being abnormal in American though, I want to add that, because I think there are a lot of abnormal people and I count myself as one. There might be coming a time when there's going to be more abnormal people than normal people and that'll be real good because abnormal people are aware of the fact that they are not that, and don't want to be that. And there are a lot of them, maybe more and more everyday. As you peel away the layers and see fact, that makes you abnormal and that's very cool. We really need more and more abnormal people who will rock the boat. We really, really do.

How do you balance your good and bad sides?

If you think good's in charge eventually you realize, as I did, even the bad serves the good, even the bad serves the good. It's all good, it's all good, cause good's in charge. But do people do bad things? Yes, when they hurt other people and the earth and animals. Yes, they do bad things. Can they not do bad things? Sometimes. Are they programmed to do bad things? Seems that way - some of them anyhow. Some people can overcome their programming to do good things. Some people can't, it seems. I don't know how it would break down, but I have overcome my programming to do good things. And it was hard, too. It's not easy to overcome your cult programming. But you can do it. I think that's the future, too. No more countries, religions, tribes. Nothing, nothing to kill or die for. And no religion, too. Imagine all the people. I love that song so much, I think that song was like... he was like our Kurt Cobain cause that was where we were all at then, and here came that song. I think, I think that you're a product of the times you live in and the generation you come from and it's always evolving to a better place for good.