I was kind of an outcast in school ’cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn’t know what to make of me.

Perri frames her adolescence as shaped by artistic solitude and an atypical lifestyle. Being “an outcast” is linked less to overt conflict than to social distance: she “kept to myself,” wrote poetry, and spent time touring with her brother’s band—experiences that set her apart from classmates with more conventional routines. The quote highlights a familiar dynamic in artist biographies: early creative drive can produce isolation, but it also builds identity and craft. It suggests that misunderstanding from peers (“kids didn’t know what to make of me”) can stem from difference rather than deficiency, and that formative marginality may later read as the prehistory of a public creative career.