Music, Sex and Poetry

I have realized that a lot of people confuse these two words. Especially in Los Angeles. yet I would say they cannot be further from each other. What I have observed is that people who are celebrities have a talent for being glamorous and beautiful and posing for the cameras, living on TV. To be an artist, I believe, you have to have a talent for finding magic. Yah...tapping into the real magic and delivering it to your audience. To be a celebrity is to be very talented at conveying a beautiful facade. To be an artist, you have to develop a talent for tapping into the real. To celebrate the REAL in life. To be a celebrity, you're gambling on a moment. Yet, to be an artist is a lifelong journey. It's not something that happens when you're 21 necessarily. I had some confusion about that until a great artist came to my house, sat down on my sofa, and said "Zoe, at what point did I become an artist? Was it after the first film, the second film? Was it when I did this or that? Just get on a write music!" For me, the road less-traveled is far more interesting than the fast burn of instant gratification of one moment of celebrity. I guess there is a place for celebrity. It kind of entertains and distracts us from our real lives. Thumbing the pages of "US" Magazine. Hey, maybe the beautiful people DO have something over us? But if our real lives were not such drudgery, and so geared toward making a buck, if we were all tuned in to our own magic, would we really have any need for celebrity? If we could each find what inspires us and makes us shiny happy people, then would we invest any energy in the illusion of celebrity?
I recently spoke to a very honest Italian journalist who told me that in all the years of interviewing celebrities around LA, she had not met a single happy celebrity couple. What, I ask myself, is wrong with this picture? Is it really all that much of an act? What I personally feel is that we really all need to find the real, where celebration and not celebrity, is for each one of us.