How to Write a Song

The dave matthews band is the blueprint for where black music is today as far as rhythmically and structurally, he says. The only reason why that level of drumming will be jarring for me is if say a tribe called quest asked for the same sort of drummer you know i'm saying yeah then it would be different but in mars volta they are like "music to my ears" He talks about his preferred method of song writing so do you do it alone or do you guys get together or there's been times when  they've all gotten together.