I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

In early 2009 Billboard believed that Grabeel and Tisdale’s track "I Want It All" should be nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category however the song did not make the final shortlist. Grabeel played a friend and supporter of Milk photographer Danny Nicoletta. His role within involves overseeing many projects from writing directing and executive producing.

As a performer he is best known for his role as Ryan Evans in Disney Channel Original Movie's High School Musical (2006) and its sequels High School Musical 2 (2007) and High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) and as Ethan Dalloway in the third and fourth installments of the Halloweentown series: Halloweentown High (2004) and Return to Halloweentown (2006). He currently plays Toby Kennish in the ABC Family drama Switched at Birth. Lucas Stephen Grabeel (pron.