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- ↑ "Joy of singles: Imperial Teen's Will Schwartz goes pop with his bubbly side project, hey willpower" - The Advocate 13 September 2005 retrieved from FindArticles.com
- 1 2 hey willpower Biography by Will Schwartz - heywillpower.com Archived February 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Name games" - San Francisco Bay Guardian Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine December 2004
- 1 2 "Pop Goes the World" - San Francisco Weekly Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine February 2005
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Free Will" - San Francisco Bay Guardian May 2005
- ↑ "Willpower" - San Francisco Bay Guardian Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine January 2004
- 1 2 3 4 hey willpower MySpace
- 1 2 hey willpower Official Website
- ↑ The Stranger Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine August 2004
- ↑ Music video for "Double Fantasy II"
