The show is simply taking people’s lives, their stories, and their personalities and putting that into their RVs. I want to take that and trick it out like no other RV. I want to do mind-blowing things. It’s a really kind of groundbreaking show the way we’re approaching it.

It’s a combination of what I’ve done my whole life, from childhood. All the years and years and years I’ve spent camping with my folks and my grandparents, and then in my professional life for the last 26 years, this is what I do. As much as I love having fun, I also sweat the details. I combine that. I’m a self-proclaimed “drealist,” which is a dreamer and a realist. I’m one of those guys, I dream it big, but then I get the reality of how do you actually make it happen.

And that’s where my expertise comes in. Taking people’s dreams and trying to make them great, like I’ve done with mine. You want to write a song? First it’s a thought — it’s an emotion. Whether it’s a fun rock song, or a country song, it’s emotional and heartbreaking. Then you’ve got to turn that into something. All of that is within the spirit of what my life is about. Life to me is an open road. It’s an adventure. It’s a combination of both.

Really, here’s how it happens. Here’s an example: A father and son — the dad’s an inventor and a creator. And he says, look, me and my son have grown apart. We’re getting to that part in our lives. We want to have an adventure together. He comes in and the son wants to find Bigfoot. This is true. He wants to find Bigfoot. I find it intriguing, as I’m a skeptical believer in Bigfoot. I want it to exist, I want to find it, but I’m a little skeptical they haven’t found one carcass yet. That’s all I’m saying.

Anyway, they come to me and say, we’ve got this old RV. We bought it, and we’ve gotten as far as we can get. The father has a job. The son is in school. I take it from there. They tell me what they’d like and everything from the way they want it to look to how they want it to run. And where my expertise comes in is I say, look, I’m a sweat-the-details guy. I go in there and take their dream of making it look cool and make sure it functions.

No, not even. There are so many. The one I think that’s going to be one of the most insane ones you’re going to see — I don’t want to give away too much — but the one we built out… it has never been done before. Never. There is not one in the U.S. that exists with what we did to this thing. It’s mind-blowing, and the reveal is insane.

It’s a combination of fun and emotional because people bring these in and they’re handing me their baby and…putting the keys into a guy’s hand who, you know — if you’re looking at me from the outside with the tattoos, the long hair, the bandana, and the reputation of destroying quite a few hotel rooms, in fact a few of them with my buddy Charlie Sheen, I’m just saying.

But you’re handing over keys, and my key word is, “Do you trust me?” There’s been some of them that are like, “I don’t know.”

When I started out back in the day — I’m going to be honest — we were happy when I started my career. We held our publishing, and we were our own independent label selling our records out of the back of the van. We were happy to have AC and heat. Don’t get me wrong. I dreamed big, but we were lucky to be able to afford that. And as our career went along and things did well, you start going down to Nashville and building these out. And you figure it out. The first thing I built in the first tour bus I ever had, I wanted the stripper poles, the bar, everything in there so it was more fun than function.

In other words, it was the coolest-looking thing provided you didn’t have to live in it for nine months out of the year. So over the years — I’m never going to use this word — I have never backed down or ever gotten conservative. I just figured out how to make things function a little bit better. But I have done some crazy things.

Absolutely. It was imperative that I got to write the theme song, and I have two [songs] that I crafted only for this show. I’m not sure if they’re going to love them or not, but they’re going to have to deal with me one way or another. The one song is…a throwback to my ’70s childhood with a combination of rock and country elements to it. And old-school, early hip-hop drum beats mixed with country and rock, and that’s the first swing I took with the ’70s throwback. I’ll leave it at that. I don’t know why it just hit my brain at midnight, and I went into the studio and we sat there and wrote this thing, and by morning I was like, that...really was one of those magical moments. It just kind of hit me and it happened. And it’s got all that old-school throwback ’70s theme music that you know when you hear it you can’t stop smiling. It’s fun. And the other one is just a straight, in-your-face, good rock-and-roll song. So I’ve got the best of both worlds.

Well, there’s a lot of stories…camping, I think one of the best experiences ever is when I went camping in Pennsylvania. We were fishing for catfish. One of my most painful and great memories, after they instructed my sister Michelle not to throw the rod, she threw it back. And of all the places [to be] standing, I got the fishhook in my face, just above the lip, and it was one of the most loving memories of my camping childhood. Don’t stand behind anyone in your family who is wheeling around a fishing rod and has no idea what they are doing. I’m looking out and all of the sudden I’m like, is there a fishhook in my face? It was just there.

And then of course, I'll say this…nobody can host and throw a party like me. I’m not kidding you. You think I’m making that up, but I throw a good, old-school, the-way-a-party-should-be party. No moody crap. It’s good music, good mixed tape. Or I should say CD. God, I just said tape. Mixed CD or iPod and I put that on. And I get people of three generations of great fans partying.