The two Take That stars have been working together on the new album despite being busy with the band's new Progress tour.
He said to Esquire magazine: 'Gaz (Gary) is great for me because he knows how I should sound. He wanted to make a Lennon and McCartney-type album. That was his big idea - big, standard records.
'At the minute it's just me and him finishing the album and I love it... Gary is kind of unemotional about stuff. I'm emotional about stuff. He's solid. I'm fickle. He gets stuff done, I don't.'