You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

Goulding’s remark frames adulthood as a point at which inherited standards—especially parental approval or disapproval—lose their authority as the primary measure of self-worth. The line suggests a shift from external validation to self-authored judgment: your choices, identity, and success can’t remain tethered to a parent’s expectations or to comparisons with a parent’s life. Implicitly, it also acknowledges how long parental influence can linger, and how maturity involves separating gratitude or love for one’s parents from the need to live by their yardstick. The quote resonates as a statement of individuation and emotional independence.