John Lennon (in 1972) - "Me. Yoko helped me with this one."
John Lennon (in 1980) - "Julia was my mother. But it was sort of a combination of Yoko and my mother blended into one. That was written in India... We wrote tons of songs in India."
Paul McCartney (in 1994) - "The interesting thing for me on 'Julia' is the finger-picking (guitar) style. He learned to fingerpick off Donovan or Gypsy Dave... That was John's song about his mum, folk finger-picking style, and a very good song."