I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it's in a noisy place. I can hear that it's Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it's Boston, and the second thing I notice is what song it is.

It's asking that never-ending question, 'Who am I?' which motivates me and takes me on a constant journey of self-discovery that teaches me so much. Will Everest make me more cautious? In reality, probably not.

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.