#PattiSmith's life is clarified through two devotions: love and work. She refers to herself as a worker because, she tells BAZAAR, her ambition has always been simply to do great work, and she doesn’t see recording albums or being onstage as inherently more valid than the work she does within her family. Nor is it more important than the work she saw her mother do, waitressing for years to solve what Smith refers to as the “creative problems” of raising and caring for Smith and her siblings. Through the link in bio, our January digital cover star looks back on an astonishing 50-year career, opening up about love, work and what drives her forward.