Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Chinese musician Coco Lee.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Coco Lee is a Hong Kong-American singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress. Lee's career began in Hong Kong and then expanded to Taiwan. Her single, "Do You Want My Love" also entered the US music charts. Her first full-length English-language album was Just No Other Way. At the Oscars, she performed the Best Original Song nominated, "A Love Before Time" from the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.
I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.
I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.
People have to respect intellectual property.
My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.
I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.
I myself never feel that I'm sexy. If people call me cute, I am happier.
I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.
I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.
They really can't imagine what my voice is like. Every time I sing a song, they are very surprised.
I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.
I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.
They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised.
I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.