Ocean Pleasant: What does your creative process look like?

Kevin McHale: It really depends on what it is—music, acting, creating, writing. It usually comes in the form of a burst of ideas all at once and I just ride that wave until it fizzles out. I try not to put pressure on creativity. When it happens it happens, and when it doesn’t that’s OK too, and accepting that is just as important.

 

OP: What’s the craziest thing you’ve done for love?

KM: Flying somewhere super far away just for a surprise.

 

OP: What makes you come most alive?

KM: Performing on stage. It’s the absolute best feeling in the entire world.

 

OP: Name an obstacle you’ve faced and overcome.

KM: I was in L.A. trying to make it as an actor and singer and ran out of all my money the month I booked Glee. I spent my time working my ass off, trying to make myself as competent in the things I wanted to so when an opportunity arose, I’d be prepared.

 

OP: If you could say one thing to everyone on the planet, what would it be?

KM: We are all so much more similar than we are different, no matter age, race, or geographical location. I think if you understand that, then we’d all get along so much more!

 

OP: Do you support any causes or organizations?

KM: Operation Smile, which gives surgeries to people with cleft palates all around the world in places where medical help is not easily accessible. The Trevor Project, which provides a suicide and crisis hotline for the LGBT community across the country.

 

OP: What do you have coming up and how can we support you?

KM: I have a film, Boychoir, coming out this year and have started a new radio show with some of my friends on Dash Radio every Thursday at 11 a.m. PST.