Grammy nominated recording artist Jamie Grace spoke with BreatheCast about her Sophomore record Ready to Fly, life as a young star, and opened up on the importance of staying pure in a society where everything but wholesomeness is promoted.

When asked about her stance on purity and the advice she would have for other girls battling the temptations of this day and age, Grace said, " I think one thing that is important is whatever standard you're living by, make sure you are living by them because you believe in them. I hear stories about these young artist saying 'I only wore my purity ring because my parents thought it was a good idea.'"

The young starlight even offered advice for parents and said purity rings may be nice for when a child is five, but at the age of seven and eight kids are already making decision on what clothes they want to wear, and music they want to listen to.

"I encourage parents.... allow that independence to be across the board. Especially when it comes to faith," she said.

Grace said her parents granting her a bit of independence helped her come to the right conclusions on her own in her life, "because for me, when I look back and I decide, 'no I don't just want to kiss all the boys that I see,' I'm not making that decision because I'm scared that my parents are going to get me. Which I am!" Grace said laughing. "But I'm making those decisions."

The 22-year-old singer said she remembers being nine or ten and wanting to listen to pop radio like all of her friends. Grace's parents Bishop and Pastor James and Mona Harper would then pull up the lyrics to those songs and go through it with Grace.

"I had to make that decision as a kid, 'oh no this is not something I want to be apart of' and of course in their wisdom they had to choose what decision I was going to make on my own and what decisions they had to make for me," she said. 

Grace said she always has someone on the road with her that understands her heart and vision and that can keep her accountable to who she is "called to be" whether its friends or family. "Temptation comes for all of us, and life gets really hard. I think it's important that we surround ourselves with people who hold us accountable."

The singer recalled a conversation she had with tour mate Kory Cooper of the band Skillet in which Cooper said, "We are all born again, we all had to do it twice." Grace then affirmed, "we are never going to get to a place where we are too good or big for correction."

The songbird described that it is in fact possible to be cool and not compromise your walk in the Lord. "It's ok to have that confidence and fashion sense while still pleasing God. I think sometimes when we are watching television many times we tend to see extremes. So we tend to go to the complete other extreme to make up for what's lacking there. Not that we can't wear that really cool short, we just have to wear a tank top under it."

Grace is gearing up to release her newest record Ready to Fly later this month.

Click here for Part 1 of the interview, in which the singer spoke with Breathecast about her experience of recording her Sophomore studio album.