Don McLean Quotes

My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.

I suffered from asthma when I was a kid.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

Growing up, I had a hair condition where my hair would fall out easily, and I had bad asthma.

Luckily I have never missed a day's filming or work due to asthma.

I discovered the wife's got asthma. Thank God - I thought she was hissing at me.

My sister, Dottie, suffered from COPD for quite a few years before we knew what it was. Hers was a form of emphysema, and she was 48 when she passed away.

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

I've had asthma my entire life.

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

I can't put my family at risk. My son already has a respiratory problem. He has asthma.

I had TB as a boy. They said my skeletal frame never developed properly.

I use an inhaler myself and have done since I was 15.

And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!

I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.

I was diagnosed with a lung disorder that some people walk around with and don't even know they have. Through early diagnosis, I'm happy to share that I stay healthy with diet and exercise.

Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When I stopped eating the normal American diet of sugar, fats, alcohol, chemicals, and additives, I felt better. I could breathe freely. When I tried to sneak in a hamburger and a Coke, my body rebelled.

Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.

Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked.

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

It's important for people to recognize that they shouldn't ignore symptoms like shortness of breath or a cough that won't go away, because these may be signs of COPD.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.