Yeh herself is modest about her role in her son's success, saying that she never took any special approach, but only made one demand of Jay from the time he was small: Since he liked music, and chose music himself, then he had to be faithful to his own choice, and practice tirelessly.
而面對兒子的成就，葉惠美總是低調地表示，她並沒有什麼特殊之道，從小她對周杰倫的唯一要求只是，既然喜歡音樂、選擇了音樂，那就必須忠於自己的選擇，要努力不懈地練琴而已。