Editing Henry Rollins (section)

==Early life==
Rollins was born Henry Lawrence Garfield in [[Washington, D.C.]], on February 13, 1961, the only child of Iris and Paul Garfield.<ref name="Biography"/><ref name="latimes">{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-14-tm-7341-story.html|title=The Angriest Man in Los Angeles : Rock Poet Henry Rollins Doesn't Drink, Smoke or Do Drugs—He Just Burns|work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 14, 1987|access-date=January 18, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Life-on-road-suits-Rollins-fine-263878.php |title=Life on road suits Rollins fine |newspaper=Newstimes |date=January 30, 2004 |publisher= The News Times (Danbury, Conn.) }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comeinandburn.com/archive/hqmay97.htm |title=An Unofficial Henry Rollins & Rollins Band Website |publisher=Come In and Burn |access-date=2014-04-19}}</ref> His mother is of Irish descent,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/henry-rollins-my-parents-gave-me-existence-but-punk-rock-gave-me-life/|title=Henry Rollins: My Parents Gave Me Existence, but Punk Rock Gave Me Life|date=May 25, 2017|website=LA Weekly}}</ref> and his father was from a [[Jewish]] family.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rhodes |first=Aaron |date=2022-02-17 |title=Henry Rollins on new music, pandemic fallout, and his upcoming spoken word tour |url=https://www.thepitchkc.com/henry-rollins-on-new-music-pandemic-fallout-and-his-upcoming-spoken-word-tour/ |access-date=2023-09-16 |website=[[The Pitch (newspaper)|The Pitch]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Rollins's paternal great-grandfather, Henach Luban, fled to the U.S. from [[Rēzekne]], Latvia, (then part of the [[Russian Empire]]) and changed his first name to Henry.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2017-07-14|first=David|last=Michaelson|title=Saving My Family History and Remembering the Holocaust: The Tale of a Synagogue|url=https://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/7/176811/-|website=[[Daily Kos]]|publication-date=2006-01-07|quote=Henach became Henry Luban in America and many of his children, grandchildren and further descendents are still alive. One such descendent of Henry Luban's is his great-grandson Henry Garfield, better known to many of us as the punk rocker Henry Rollins.|url-status=live|archive-date=July 14, 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170714144129/https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/1/7/176811/-|df=mdy-all}}</ref> When Rollins was three years old, his parents divorced and he was raised by his mother in the Washington neighborhood of [[Glover Park]].<ref name="Biography ">J. Parker, Turned On: A Biography of Henry Rollins, 2000</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Rolling Stone Interview: Henry Rollins |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stone-interview-henry-rollins-19931223 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=August 29, 2017 |archive-date=October 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012201643/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stone-interview-henry-rollins-19931223 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://alextimes.com/2007/09/alexandria-sightings-nature-or-nurture-henry-rolli/ |title=Alexandria Sightings – Nature or nurture? Henry Rollins provokes &#124; Alexandria Times |publisher=Alextimes.com |date=2007-09-27 |access-date=2012-10-31}}</ref><ref name="ayad">{{cite web |url=http://www.themodernword.com/interviews/interview_rollins.html |title=You can't dance to a book: Neddal Ayad interviews Henry Rollins |author=Ayad, Neddal |publisher=TheModernWord.com |date=2007-02-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502161205/http://www.themodernword.com/interviews/interview_rollins.html |archive-date=May 2, 2015 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> As a child and teenager, Rollins was sexually assaulted,<ref>{{cite news|last=Colon |first=Suzan |url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/whos-afraid-of-henry-rollins-6364789 |title=Who's Afraid of Henry Rollins? |newspaper=[[Miami New Times]] |date=1992-07-22 |access-date=2017-03-04}}</ref> and he suffered from depression and low self-esteem.<ref name="a25">Azerrad, Michael. ''[[Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991]]''. Little Brown and Company, 2001. {{ISBN|0-316-78753-1}}. p. 25</ref> In fourth grade, he was diagnosed with [[hyperactivity]] and was prescribed with [[Ritalin]] for several years to focus during school.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOqSQ4xuFdc|title=Henry Rollins Discusses Being Put On Ritalin As A Child (interview)|publisher=[[The Joe Rogan Experience]]|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>

Rollins attended [[The Bullis School]], then an all-male preparatory school in [[Potomac, Maryland]].<ref name="Biography"/> According to Rollins, the school helped him to develop a sense of discipline and a strong work ethic.<ref name="a25" /> It was at Bullis that he began writing.<ref name="ayad" /> After high school, he attended [[American University]] in Washington for one semester, but dropped out in December 1979.<ref name="latimes"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://dailyuw.com/news/1996/nov/27/an-interview-with-henry-rollins/ |title=An Interview With Henry Rollins &#124; The Daily |publisher=Dailyuw.com |date=1996-11-27 |access-date=2012-10-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708041440/http://dailyuw.com/news/1996/nov/27/an-interview-with-henry-rollins/ |archive-date=July 8, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> He began working minimum-wage jobs, including a job as a courier for kidney samples at the [[National Institutes of Health]].<ref name="popenter">{{cite web |url=http://www.popentertainment.com/henryrollins.htm |title=Henry Rollins interview |access-date=2007-08-14 |author=Sklar, Ronald |publisher=PopEntertainment.com}}</ref> In 1987, he said that he had not seen his father since the age of 18,<ref name="latimes"/> and, in 2019, wrote, "What my father thinks of me, or if he is still alive, I have no idea."<ref name="latimes2019">{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-review-jared-yates-sexton-man-they-wanted-20190620-story.html|title=Men are expected to be 'strong silent types' — and it's breaking them, says Henry Rollins|work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 20, 2019|access-date=June 29, 2019}}</ref>