John Podesta says he’s now more careful with his words, two years after a viral conspiracy theory centered around him convinced a man to fire three shots in a Washington pizza restaurant in an effort to save children.

“Sometimes you feel compelled to do it anyway,” Podesta said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine of speaking out publicly. “And I don’t do it for fun. I do it when I think something’s serious enough that I need to say something. And now I’m just a little bit more guarded [about] it, and guarded about what appearances I accept.”