When I was 17 years old I grabbed my guitar, a suitcase and left my home in Sweden to go after my dream of building a life on music. Ever since that day I've dedicated every single day pursuing this mission. I've spent periods unable to pay rent, crashing at floors. I've had rejections, learned how to say goodbye and walk away, and I know what it feels like to lie awake on the bare ground, wondering why the hell I don't just admit my failure, surrender, pack it up.

I'm fascinated by the concept of a quest. Of being on a mission towards something that is bigger than yourself, deeper than simply having a purpose or passion for something. People have been dedicating weeks, months, years or lives to different kinds of quests for as long back as you can go, and I've found myself studying these people, their core values and why they embarked on their personal journeys in the first place. These quests show themselves in all kinds of forms; not speaking for a year, letting go of technology, raise a certain amount of money for a good cause. 30 days of meditating in the mountains, travellers in the Himalayas, or; a young girl on a mission to find her WHY, build a life on the only thing the could grow to love, and find her people in the process.

Being on a quest, having a mission for your very existence, gives you an unstoppable will and motivation to simply keep going when everything else screams no. It gives you courage, that is stronger than that fear you will learn to live with.

HEROES is a song that came to be my own symphony for this quest I feel I'm on. I found myself drifted off, a bit lost, having moved from England to Berlin a year ago, and I felt sort of gone. I didn't understand the language and no one knew where I was or what I was doing. I spent the first months just crashing at different hostels or airports, not really knowing where to go or what to do there. Leaving home at a very young age and living like a vagabond for so long, I've learned to build my home in other things than in material belongings or a static place. I've learned to find my sense of home and comfort in my music. So, scared as I was, I kept writing, singing, reading, creating.

Usually I write my songs on an acoustic guitar or a piano, but this certain night when I wrote HEROES, these sounds felt too empty. Too small. Too naked. I started the song with the beat and kick drum that goes throughout the verses, and the songs actually started with the mantra-like Mid8. I programmed the beat and as in hypnosis just kept singing these lines over and over again, recording it on the spot and kept layering it with harmonies. "As long as I am moving I'm right on the path I made."

I rarely think about anyone else when I write my songs, but I've been so lucky to somehow find a fanbase of people that I feel personally connected too. I feel such an incredible support from them, and sometimes even like I owe them to not give up, and that lingered in my head: "Together we will walk like a tribe in the night".

I kept building the verses and the chorus from this Mid8 and the production happened really naturally, like it wrote itself. And I think that's the beautiful thing about writing music; there's not "one" formula, a right way or a wrong way. Every song is different and every song has its own story.