I feel like a city is strange when there is no source of escape. You need mountains, ocean, or forest. My parents have a sailboat and love being in t… - AURORA

It's very hard for me. I don't see the meaning in numbers. I don't have the possibility to understand what they mean in terms of success. I don't get a rush out of them – I wish I did. It's a very hard question for me to answer without seeming ungrateful because I am very honoured that people have let 'Runaway' into their hearts.

The underdogs are my lions
The silent ones are my choir
The women will be my soldiers
With the weight of life on their shoulders

I wrote "Runaway" when I was 11 years old. It's quite funny because the older I got, the more it made sense to me. It touched my heart, and now it reminds me of things that happened after I wrote it. It was kind of like a gift to myself. It's weird because my inspiration for the lyrics to "Runaway" came out of nowhere. A few years later, something happened to me (well, the whole of Norway actually), and then the lyrics made so much sense to me. I sat in my house on the usual piano I always write on and it look like an hour, I think. I remember it was completely quiet, it was grey outside. Not light, not dark, not dry, not wet, not cold, not warm – it was kind of one of those out-of-place kind of days. It was kind of like time was standing still.