Benjamin Booker

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people. ”

My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'She's the singer. I'm just strumming along and yelling.' ”

In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general. ”